Bridgend County Borough Council
POW Camp 198 (Island Farm) was a Prisoner of War Camp in Bridgend, South Wales. It was built originally as a dormitory for female factory workers in 1938, it became a POW camp in 1944. The camp hosted a number of Axis prisoners, most of them German, and was the scene of the largest escape attempt by German POW’s in Britain during World War II when in March 1945, 86 prisoners escaped through a tunnel dug from Hut Nine (the only hut now left standing).
We were asked to produce an interpretation panel for the site
Photo credit: Alexander Jones
