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Brownrigg Camp School, Bellingham
Brownrigg Camp School was one of several camps built by the National Camps Corporation in 1939. The Corporation was established by an Act of Parliament to build and manage camps for educational visits by children from polluted urban cities during peacetime, and as evacuation centres during wartime. It was used as a boarding school for children evacuated from Newcastle during the Second World War. The site included dormitory huts built with red cedar and cedar shingle roofs, a dining hall, kitchens, an assembly hall with a stage, classrooms, ablution blocks, a hospital block, and tuck shop. After the war Northumberland Education Authority purchased the camp and from September 1945, children in their final year of schooling would spend a winter or summer term there.[1] It later became a boarding school for children from cities to spend time in the countryside. The school closed in July 1985 and was later used as a horse riding school, and a film set, before being converted to the holiday accommodation that exists here today.[2]
The National Camps Corporation, Limited, which has been recognised as the operative company for England and Wales under the Camps Act, 1939, has considered 155 sites for camps, all of which have been personally inspected by either the 'chairman or the managing director, and the majority also by departmental officers. Between 30 and 40 camps are likely to be constructed in England and Wales. They are to be used as school camps in peace time and as evacuation camps in time of war The Camps Corporation are required, by the terms of their agreement, so far as possible to give preference in letting the camps to education authorities desiring to use them as school camps. Thirty sites have so far been found suitable. Two have been given to the corporation, and the others have either been purchased, or are the subject of negotiations for purchase. The camps are being built of standardised units which have been designed by Mr. Tait, of Messrs. Sir John Burnet Tait and Lone, consulting architects to the corporation. All the buildings are of Canadian cedar with cedar shingle roofs. Each camp will be laid out on the site by an architect chosen from a panel drawn up in conjunction with the Royal Institute of British Architects..
Extract from: Oral Answers to Questions, House of Commons, 6 July 1939 (TheyWorkForYou)
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Brownrigg Lodges
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Brown Rigg Camp School (Brownrigg Lodges) (Bellingham)
- In 1939 evacuation schemes were reviewed and it was decided to establish purpose-built children's camps, or National Camps, for schoolchildren evacuated from cities. Construction began in mid 1939 and about …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from https://www.brownrigglodges.c…
Brownrigg Lodges
- Official Website of Brownrigg Lodges with details of holiday lodges, guest rooms and facilities. The Website also includes details of the history of the site,
Added by
Simon Cotterill
from https://keystothepast.info/se…
Brown Rigg Camp School (Brownrigg Lodges) (Bellingham)
- In 1939 evacuation schemes were reviewed and it was decided to establish purpose-built children's camps, or National Camps, for schoolchildren evacuated from cities. Construction began in mid 1939 and about …
Added by
Simon Cotterill
