Wolverley Camp Archives were invited to the Wolverley Ladies Fellowship meeting on Monday 27th February, where we were able to show the members some of the history from Wolverley Camp. With the help of Dave Andrews everyone enjoyed watching both CD’s which Ernie Ward, ex RAPC, has helped to produce. After watching these Dave helped by reading a few interesting items from the archives. This was followed afterwards by the members asking numerous questions, which our friend, Martin Collins who had come along in American uniform helped to answer.
 
As the evening came to a close, the Ladies Fellowship very kindly made a donation for our planned memorial to the 52nd General Hospital in Wolverley church.

A group called Jericho has recently submitted plans to allow them to develop the derelict tunnels at the former Rover Works, Kingsford. They plan to construct a training site in and around the tunnels to provide residential training for ex-offenders, ex-addicts, the homeless and those with chronic illnesses. Together with environmental and social reasons, Wolverley Camp opposes these plans from an historical point of view. Construction of the tunnels was completed early in 1943 and coincided with the American army’s occupation of Wolverley Camp. It has been claimed that construction of the 3 miles of tunnels was one of the biggest war time feats in factory construction.
 
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