Media interest 2011 From BBC NewsCrumbling Harperley PoW camp gets £500,000...is to undergo repairs thanks to a donation of £500,000. English Heritage is spending the money on the canteen and theatre at Harperley POW Camp 93 near Crook, County Durham. Two years ago the camp's owners put it up for sale on eBay for £900,000, but did not receive a single bid. Now English Heritage is hoping to save the camp and will carry out repairs at the site over two years. It is hoped it will become a tourist attraction. 2012 From The Northern Echo online pages, 8:00am Monday 2 January 2012Grant to protect POW campA Canteen and theatre built by prisoners of war at a camp will be better protected from the elements thanks to a £500,000 grant. From BBC News online pages, 17:26 Monday 30 January 2012Harperley PoW camp owners' hope for investorWhen foot-and-mouth disease wiped out their herd of pedigree Highland cattle, Lisa and James MacLeod decided it was time to turn their hands to something completely different... 2014 Durham County Council received two planning applications for the site in June. The site's owner James MacLeod requested permission to turn four of the huts into homes for his family. Simon Raine wished to turn hut 16 into a cheese making factory. Raine stated that this would have continued a tradition of food production at the site. Planning permission was granted to Raine in August. References 1. J. A. Hellen. "Revisiting the past: German Prisoners of War and their legacy in Britain". Retrieved 2009-12-14. "After the D-Day Invasion in June 1944, increasing numbers of German POWs were trans-shipped to Britain, although the main movements were from the near-Continent and North America after May 1945 (Table 1). There were two main purposes for this transfer: screening, political re-education and de-nazification and, for non-officers, their employment as agricultural and other labour. . . . Conclusion: In summary, it can be argued that the main raison d'être'' of the camps, the political re-education of the Germans in Britain, had the unintended and long-term effect of re-educating the British themselves in their perceptions of and attitudes towards the German enemy in particular, and to Europeans in general." External links english-heritage.org.uk Military history of County Durham Buildings and structures in County Durham World War II prisoner of war camps in England