In a report about a lecturer visiting Willingham Camp 256, it says he visited "Winteringham Hostel". It gives a brief note: “At Winteringham Hostel where half the PW are of Jugoslav nationality.….” Winteringham is in N Lincolnshire, but I can find no other reference to it as a sub-camp or hostel of Willingham in any other report. Has anyone come across it before? Keep well.
POW CAMP 81 PINGLEY FARM – PoW Hostel 81 Castlethorpe (PoW Camp 148 Castlethorpe Camp) – PoW Hostel 81 Crowle – PoW Hostel 81 Elsham Hall – PoW Hostel 81 Elsham Manor – PoW Hostel 81 Elsham Mount – PoW Hostel 81 Lower Santon – PoW Hostel 81 Keadby North – PoW Hostel 81 Keadby South – PoW Hostel 81 Kirmington (PoW Camp 292 Kirmington Camp) – PoW Hostel 81 Sandtoft (Next to Sandtoft Aerodrome / ex RAF Station) – PoW Hostel 81 Scawby – PoW Hostel 81 Winteringham PoW Sites in Yorks, Humber and Lincs further info on Camp 81 here Camp List – WW2 P.O.W. Camps in the UK
I think the entry I saw may be ambiguous now. It could read: 1. at the.. Main Camp, Hostel Holton, Satellite Camp Kirmington ..of this camp.. and Hostel Winteringham or 2. at the.. Main Camp, Hostel Holton, Satellite Camp Kirmington and Hostel Winteringham.. of this camp. I read it as 2. - but now I think it is reading 1 - making it separate from 256 Willingham - and as you have said, with Pingley. Thank you - best wishes.
Former AA Battery sites were popular as there may not have been enough huts for a main camp or large hostel at first, the site itself was generally large because of the spacing of the guns. Consequently there was room to bring in more huts and build. However, some grew to the extent they were not merely hostels, but main camps. An example was Walgherton 147, which was a former HAA site, then a main camp for a while before coming a hostel.
