Old Photograph Glenbranter Camp Scotland

Old photograph of Glenbranter Camp near Strachur, Scotland. Camp buildings were built here during the Depression, from 1933 to 1934, to be used as accommodations for the unemployed. Known as Instructional Centres, the camp regime sought to harden the unemployed, many of whom came from industrial West of Scotland and had previously worked in mining or other industries hit by depression, and prepare them for work elsewhere. The Glenbranter camp hit the headlines in 1935 when the trainees organised public walk outs, and again in 1936 when there was a mass meeting to protest against conditions. During World War II Glenbranter was a German prisoner of war camp, guarded by soldiers who had survived the Dunkirk evacuation.



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