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Neil deGrasse Tyson is on my TV telling me how our universe began and how it will probably end.
He's an animated man and has huge hands, l wouldn't fancy a late night pub argument about cosmology with him unless I was armed.
 

classic33

Leg End Member
@deptfordmarmoset
@deptfordmarmoset the café looks exactly how I remember it!
Shame about the lack of evidence re the POW camp, but I think the last residents left in 1945!! There's no sign of any prefabs either.
As far as I remember, it was all flattened and covered over, same as Blackheath.
It was used to dump all the bombed out buildings then grassed over. The church used to be on a mound, not down in a dip, I believe.
My dad spent the war trying to shoot down German planes with a big gun there..


Must have been fun exploring there today, though 👍🏼
RAF photo, 1944, showing the camp to the right of the pond.
RAF photo of Wanstead Flats, Aug 1944. To right of pond are huts and tents, used to house PoWs.jpg


Any idea if this is still in the area?
150px-The_Ypres_Memorial_Milestone,_Shooter's_Hill.jpg

Ypres Memorial Mile Stone, Shooter's Hill.
 
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deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way

Gravity Aided

Legendary Member
Location
Land of Lincoln
@deptfordmarmoset the café looks exactly how I remember it!
Shame about the lack of evidence re the POW camp, but I think the last residents left in 1945!! There's no sign of any prefabs either.
As far as I remember, it was all flattened and covered over, same as Blackheath.
It was used to dump all the bombed out buildings then grassed over. The church used to be on a mound, not down in a dip, I believe.
My dad spent the war trying to shoot down German planes with a big gun there..


Must have been fun exploring there today, though 👍🏼
Really? We had one German escape from Camp Libby , because we told the Germans they may be transferred to the French and British custody for war reparations, so I was told. This was after the war.
 
I'd ask @PeteXXX to lob me a portion of pudding, but I wouldn't know where to put it after the lovely supper I had... :blush:

Spaghetti with spinach, pesto & creme fraiche, and hake with a Parmesan and pepper crumb topping. :hungry:
 

deptfordmarmoset

Full time tea drinker
Location
Armonmy Way
@classic33 & @deptfordmarmoset
Nice finds but that's the camp on the A207 (Shooters Hill). The Oxleas camp was on the old A2 Rochester Way.
An aerial photo shows a few things, plus a big circle thingie..
View attachment 580190

Happy hunting.
Do you think it might have been an overflow site from the Woodlands farm site? From what you said, I understood it to be in the area directly below (south) of the Oxleas Meadow label.

Edit: oh, there is no trace of that circle visible on the ground. It's a very symmetrical circle. Perhaps worms have built their own CERN....
 
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