played by the prisoners using donated and re-tailored costumes and dresses. Most wigs were fabricated from Hessian sacking with the threads and fibres gently teased apart and fashioned in the styles of the day, bleached and dyed as required. Allegedly, Marlene Dietrich and Betty Grable, amongst many others, have 'trod the boards' at Harperley Camp. The eight to 11 piece Camp Orchestra played music they knew and frequently wrote their own compositions. Instruments were either donated or bought using PoW monies from their Central Fund. Incidentally, on viewing the size of the orchestra pit, one is unsure how eight to 11 prisoners, seating, music stands and instruments (including a double bass and drum kit), were accommodated. Harperley's Camp Orchestra played by popular request at many local functions aided by their equally talented Musical Director, PoW Helmut Entz, (in his previous civilian life he was a professional musician). It is hoped to restore and return the theatre to the community, not just to Drama and Theatre groups, but also to schools and colleges. To rededicate it for the use it was given all those years ago by the German PoWs. Many school and college groups have already expressed an interest in showing possible future productions. If and when restoration commences, it has been suggested that encasing one of the old interior panels in perspex would display the deplorable condition the hut was found in prior to restoration. In its heyday, in 1940s wartime Britain, it was not just a popular venue for the PoWs, but also for invited Guards, Officers and the local community as well. Performances in the theatre are fondly remembered by now elderly audience participants who were children then. Some programmes from performances in the theatre survive. South Perimeter Fence Harperley was a working camp and that work was long and hard. At the end of World War II most German PoWs were repatriated. However, throughout the UK, approximately one in 16 PoWs remained, men such as Rudi Lux. Prisoners that chose to remain in the United Kingdom had to report weekly to the local police station as a 'displaced' person until as recently as 1961. Visitors to Harperley envisage its future as another Eden Camp. It is not the vision of current owners James and Lisa MacLeod and not what they wish to portray. Eden Camp, No. 83 and 250, is an interactive museum and excels at