These are pics recently sent to me by Andrew, colleague and fellow PoW researcher.
Pingley Farm was built to house 750 prisoners, probably in 1943/4. The guards compound was originally tented, but later had 15 huts and a water tower. Standard hut in the camp was the 18' 6" Ministry of War Production hut.
The prisoner's compound comprised 10-bay MoWP huts, but there were also 8 Laing wooden huts, which incorporated bituminised corrugated iron.
The prisoners' compound comprised approx. 35 huts-cookhouse, grocery & produce store, 2 dining huts, drying room & showers, 2 ablutions/latrine blocks, a sick bay, a carpenter's hut and arond 23 accommodation huts.
Pingley seems not too far away from Eden Camp, which is now a museum, but the contrast in preservation couldn't be more obvious-
