HuwThomas

By HuwThomas

Romney huts

Taken outside Norton Fitzwarren/Cross Keys Petrol station - The site of old Arms depo and POW camp - 665 Cross Keys - for Italian soldiers during WWII.

https://repatriatedlandscape.org/england/pow-sites-in-the-south-west/pow-camp-665-cross-keys/

They were invented by Lt Col Edgar Frank Brawn of the Royal Engineers. They superseded  smaller Iris Huts and the initally WWI  designed Nissan huts.

Colour in extra.

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