Brayton Isolation Hospital - WWII

[toni*]

i googles Brayton Isolation Hospital on uk pages only and this came up:

A2A - Access to Archives | Catalogues | New This Month, February 2003... Leicester and Rutland Record Office: Plans of Blaby Isolation Hospital ... Leeds: Burn, Brayton, survey and rental, 1568 (photocopy) [20th century] West ...

and also this:

[PDF] PAGE 1 HARROGATE BOROUGH COUNCIL VALID APPLICATIONS RECEIVED WEEK ...File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
c/o P.Wood 2 Holmefield Court Brayton Selby YO8. 9DP. CONSULTEES & DATE SENT:. Parish Council ... Conversion of former isolation hospital to form 1 ...

i clicked on the link for the planning application and it is on page 30

conversion of former isolation hospital to form 1 dwelling and detached triple garage.

[perth tiger]

i had a look toni, i think they are 2 diff applications. if you read them both they are on diff pages one is in spofforth ward and the other in claro ward. i think they just showed up on google as been in the same document. i lived and worked around brayton for years and i have never heard of it. i do have a relative who was a patient in gateforth hospital when he had tb back in 1948

[toni*]

oh !

[perth tiger]

lol toni i aint sure im right yet on one thread i talked for ages about gateforth and they wanted to know about garforth

[toni*]

maybe a map of the area in the 40-50's would solve the question.

[perth tiger]

i had a look on old maps abt 1851 there was nothing there. the selby library would be my first port of call

[toni*]

this may be silly but any chance it was a temporary site set up for war casualties and then disappeared at the end of the war? (you know like a tent!)
 

[toni*]

Brayton Barff

Brayton Barff is the high point of the area – standing some 150 feet above sea level. It was the site of a beacon in 1803 when we were threatened with invasion by Napoleon.

 

In May 1935, to celebrate King George V's Silver Jubilee, a Bonfire on the Barff as part of the celebrations. In both World Wars much use was made of the various Camps on the Barff and they housed Prisioners of War in WW2.
 

It is now owned by Yorkshire Water, who have provided a car park on the Barff Lane side of the Barff, and is well used by walkers and bird watchers.
from the parish council site.


there was a USA airfield control tower there in WW2, which has now been demolished

i tried googling WW2 Brayton it has come up with a lot of information for Brayton for that time.
and two war diaries.

maybe it was on the POW camp.??






 

[AmisUK]

It could be near an airforce base, as my grandfather was in the RAF at the time and must have been stationed near Selby (as he is originally from Lowestoft, Suffolk).