Digital Archive

Since Eden Camp opened to the public as a museum in 1987, our visitors have been donating items to our archive which has continued to grow into a collection of national historical importance. In order to make this valuable resource open to the public and thanks to funding from the government’s #hereforculture Cultural Recovery Fund, we have begun the long process of making it available online. We’ve started with documents relating to the museum’s time as a prisoner of war camp but we’re adding new material every week on a wide variety of topics, so keep checking back for more.

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Popular Objects

Copies of photographs (4) - Royal Marine Harry King & Colleagues - wartime service - far East; 35998
Colour photograph - Mr Robert Hogg in later life - (see also forces re-union); 35354
Photograph - fire hoses in action after a bombing raid in Manchester - 1940; 1/01/1940; 6812
Copy of photograph - "H.M.S. Black Prince" - Dido class cruiser - passing under Sydney harbour bridge - Australia; 35999
Photograph - 12 miles of riverside fire - London; 6813
Photographs (2) - Eric Isherwood (b/c 4236) - Palestine Police - Haifa - 1946; 1/01/1946; 37206
Photograph - Civil Defence teams working to release trapped woman from bomb damaged building - (copy in C.D.display cabinet 4 hut 21); 6821
Copy of photograph - Pte J.W. Scott 22494726 "A" Coy 2 platoon 1st Bn Durham Light Infantry - Korea - (copy in hut 13); 37868
Copies (2) of photograph - "Cornishmen in Korea serving with the Durham Light Infantry"; 37870
Copies (10) of colour photographs - Palestine memorial at Alrewas - photographs taken by Richard waterman; 37873
Copies (2) of photograph - rescue motor launch - rml 522 - Fairmile "B" class; 36473
Photograph - "Presenting the terms of the peace treaty to Germany at Versailles" - 1919; 1/01/1919; 8953
Photograph - a German officer (WW1) reduced to begging in the street after the economic collapse of 1929; 1/01/1929; 8955
Photographs (9) - various personnel RHQ Troop - HQ Squadron - 3rd King's Own Hussars - Palestine 1947-1948; 37874
Copies (2) of photograph - rescue motor launch - rml 532 - Fairmile "B" class; 36474
Photograph - unemployed Germans in Berlin during the 1930s; 1/01/1930; 8957
Copies (6) of photographs (3) - "H.M.S. Magpie" - Pennant no: f82 - with technical details; 37280
Photograph - President Hindenberg with Reich chancellor Hitler; 8959
Photograph - Airborne troops dropped over Jordan 1952 - 2nd Bn Parachute Regiment plus 16 independent parachute signals squadron; 1/01/1952; 37877
Photograph (colour) - Mussolini - dictator of Italy; 8960
Photograph - Kathleen & Vivienne Robson - Whitley bay - June 1942 - 1940s fashion; 1/06/1942; 37283
Photograph - Chamberlain after his return from Munich in 1938 - "Peace in our time"; 1/01/1938; 8961
Photograph - four patrols from 16 independent Parachute Signals Squadron meet in desert off Red Sea for supplies - 1953; 1/01/1953; 37878
Photograph - Lord Woolton - a member of the war cabinet addresses members of the Women's Land Army; 8963

Useful Links:

How to Search the Eden Camp Digital Archive – Information on the different ways of searching the Eden Camp Digital Archive using the eHive platform.

Request Records of Deceased Service Personnel – Information from gov.uk on how to apply to the MOD for the records of deceased service personnel.

International Committee of the Red Cross – The place for information on requesting the records of WW2 prisoners of war.

Repatriated Landscapes – An excellent, up to date and well illustrated record of prisoner of war camps in the UK.

Kohima Museum – The only UK museum dedicated to the Burma Campaign.  Located in York, just 23 miles from Eden Camp.

If you would like to donate or loan any items to our archive for preservation and/or display, please get in touch with our Archivist, Summer to make an appointment. You can see what we no longer accept by clicking here.