Ashdown WW2 Camp

A unique site with five genuine restored WW2 Nissen Huts, so what better way to inspire the school children of today and tomorrow, so that the memories and experiences of such an integral part of our history can be preserved.

• Can accommodate groups up to 60appx evacuees, or up to 4/5 groups
• Plenty of shelter if wet weather
• Not open to the general public so you will have exclusive use
• Resource sheets and questionnaire available
• Secure fencing around the camp so they can't escape
• Toilet block
• Wheelchair friendly
  
• Low risk assessment
• Low entry fees (minimum of £55 for groups of up to 10 people then a cost per head fee for larger groups.)

Nissen Huts
Learn how they were built and used. Complete with pot-bellied stoves and atmospheric military memorabilia, each group can work on their resource sheets then move on to the next Nissen. We've also prepared a quiz about the camp.

WW2 Transport 
See some wartime vehicles from the Bob James collection, and learn about the roles they played, like a Jeep in the motor pool, or an amphibious Dukw or even a tank! (Subject to availability & weather)

Searchlights
A brilliant beam produced not from a bulb but carbon arc, producing a 2billion candlepower beam up to 5 miles. Learn how anit-aircraft gunnery crews used light cones to dazzle and track planes.

Did you know that in 1940 it took an average of 20,000 rounds of ammunition to down a single plane?

Experience evacuation
When you hear the air-raid siren, see where a family would run to, even the baby wears a gas mask! Then all evacuate to the Stanton, built to shelter up to 50 men during a bombing air-raid, complete with sound and lighting effects.