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COLLECTION

Hostels in Britain

Former prisoner-of-war camps, YMCA hostels and miners' hostels that housed Ukrainian European Voluntary Workers and released Galicia Division men from 1947.

In this collection

46 places
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Allington

Allington, near Grantham · United Kingdom · 1942–1948
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Amisfield Park Hostel

Haddington · United Kingdom · Ukrainian hostel documented 1948; camp 1944 to 1949
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Annsmuir Hostel

Ladybank · United Kingdom · German working camp 1945 to February 1948; European volunteer workers’ camp from 1948
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Armadale Miners’ Hostel

Armadale, West Lothian · United Kingdom · Documented 1946–1947; postwar Ukrainian accommodation
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Balhary Hostel

Alyth · United Kingdom · POW camp documented 1945–1947; postwar Ukrainian hostel
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Ballado Hostel

Kinross · United Kingdom · Postwar Ukrainian accommodation
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Barony Hostel

Parkgate · United Kingdom · German working camp No 298, files covering 1945 to 1948; Ukrainian accommodation in the late 1940s
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Beith Industrial Hostel

Beith, Ayrshire · United Kingdom · Documented 1948
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Bela River Hostel

Milnthorpe · United Kingdom · Prisoner-of-war camp 1943–1948; agricultural hostel for displaced persons; open prison 1953–1974
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Botesdale Camp

Botesdale · United Kingdom · Ukrainian phase documented 1947–1948
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Brackla Hostel

Nairn · United Kingdom · RAF station July 1941 to December 1947; military accommodation documented 1945–1946; postwar Ukrainian hostel; council emergency housing 1946–1959
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Burnbrae Hostel

Galashiels · United Kingdom · Postwar
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Castle Rankine

Denny · United Kingdom · 1940–about 1953
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Creca Hostel

Creca near Annan · United Kingdom · Late 1940s–early 1950s
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Crieff Hostel

Crieff, Perthshire · United Kingdom · Postwar EVW accommodation, documented 1953
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Deer Park Hostel

Dalkeith · United Kingdom · Postwar EVW accommodation
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Dunning Hostel

Dunning, Perthshire · United Kingdom · Documented 1950–1951
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East Fortune Hostel

East Fortune · United Kingdom · Postwar; address recorded in 1952
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Girvan Hostel

Girvan · United Kingdom · Postwar; related Maidens notice 1948
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Hallmuir

Lockerbie · United Kingdom · Camp built 1942; Ukrainian community from 1947
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Hempton Green Camp

Hempton / Pudding Norton · United Kingdom · Ukrainian occupation documented 1947–1949
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ICI Hostel, St Boswells

St Boswells · United Kingdom · Postwar
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Inverlochy Hostel

Fort William · United Kingdom · Postwar Ukrainian accommodation
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Kildary Hostel

Kildary · United Kingdom · Two-hut prisoner-of-war camp from 1946; YMCA hostel in the Ukrainian directory
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Kingencleugh Agricultural Hostel

Mauchline · United Kingdom · Prisoner-of-war Camp 112 from 1943; Ukrainian hostel documented in 1948
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Kirtlebridge Camp

Kirtlebridge, Dumfriesshire · United Kingdom · Postwar Ukrainian accommodation
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Macmerry Hostel

Macmerry · United Kingdom · Documented 1948–May 1951
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Monymusk Hostel

Monymusk · United Kingdom · Prison camp 1943–1947; hostel from the late 1940s; site cleared in the early 1980s
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Moorby

Moorby, near Revesby · United Kingdom · Prisoner-of-war camp about 1940 to 1948; workers’ hostel from 1948
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Mortonhall Hostel

Edinburgh · United Kingdom · Ukrainian hostel in the postwar years
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Munlochy Hostel

Munlochy · United Kingdom · Wartime camp; EVW alterations planned February 1948; harvest accommodation in the 1950s
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Newbattle Miners’ Hostel

Dalkeith · United Kingdom · Documented 1948–1953
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North Hill

Laurencekirk · United Kingdom · Camp 75 from about 1945; Ukrainian European Voluntary Workers recorded 1949
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Ponteland YMCA Hostel No. 2

Ponteland · United Kingdom · Postwar Ukrainian accommodation; Darras Hall prisoner-of-war camp 1945–1947
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Raylees Hostel

Elsdon · United Kingdom · Prisoner-of-war hostel to 1946; Ukrainian farm workers’ hostel from 1947
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Reves House

Dundee · United Kingdom · Postwar Ukrainian accommodation
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Ryton Miners’ Hostel

Ryton-on-Tyne · United Kingdom · Documented 1948–1949
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Sandyhillock Hostel

Craigellachie · United Kingdom · Camp documented 1945–1948; postwar YMCA hostel
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Springwood Park

Kelso · United Kingdom · Estate from 1750; wartime billeting; hostel recorded 1953
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Tannadice Hostel

Tannadice · United Kingdom · German POW hostel 1947; Ukrainian YMCA hostel from 1948
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Thorncroft Hostel

Selkirk · United Kingdom · Postwar
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Victoria Camp

Mildenhall / Eriswell · United Kingdom · Second World War–1948
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Victoria Park

Peebles · United Kingdom · Public park from 1888; military camp photographed 28 March 1946; Ukrainian accommodation in the postwar years; cleared by 1988
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Wilton Hostel, Hawick

Hawick · United Kingdom · Camp from about 1939; postwar DP and EVW accommodation
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Windlestone Hall

Rushyford · United Kingdom · Country house from the 1830s; prisoner-of-war camp 1945; postwar hostel documented 1948; residential school from the 1950s
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Winfield Camp

Hutton · United Kingdom · Airfield 1942 to 1945; displaced persons camp from October 1946; hostel recorded about 1951
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