This web site is becoming the largest collection of information on the internet about Houndstone Camp, Yeovil, Somerset, England. Hopefully it will continue to grow with donations from visitors of their memories, details and photographs. The website may even expand into covering Lufton Camp also, the sister camp of Houndstone. Little remains of these camps, Houndstone being the only one to have surviving buildings. I feel its important to gather information of these sites and put them on the internet. These will then be accessible for anyone who is interested in the history of the site, or even served there, as the camp is rapidly vanishing beneath business estates and slipping in the memories of locals and people who visited the camp.
If you feel you have anything to contribute, in even the smallest way...
please e-mail me at: houndstone_camp@yahoo.co.uk
The following links are pages showing pictures taken (roughly dated 1996) of areas of Houndstone Camp, by Brian Kitching and myself. The texts are based on memories of what structures remained. These memories are sketchy, and perhaps 5 years old.
The following links are donated recollections and photographs of various peoples lives spent at the camp.
A Year At The Camp A National Service recruits time at the camp, June 1959-June 1960, and his return visit to the camp, in 1996. Courtesy of Brian Kitching.
Pipe Band A servicemans amusing story of an event at the camp. Courtesy of Ray Bennett.
Refugee Camp The story of a Refugee`s time at Houndstone Camp, during his early childhood in 1972/73. Courtesy of Bhikhu Vadera.
Planning a reunion?... need to find an old mate?...
The following links are resources and notes found on the internet, quotes from books, paper clippings, maps and aerial photography regarding Houndstone Camp.
The following links are for information on Regiments and Corps that were based at the camp.
Last updated:
6.34pm Tuesday 14th of October 2003 (changed contact email address)
Previously updated:
5.40pm Saturday 10th of August 2002 (added to resources a new section "newspaper / magazine clippings" with one new article)
Contacts:
site author; houndstone_camp@yahoo.co.uk or jonnynation@yahoo.com.
Notices:
THAT I PROMISE TO REDESIGN THIS WEBSITE THIS WINTER! HONEST! sorry chaps, for the long delay. (Oct 2003)
Notes:
To expand pictures, you`ll have to right click on them and save them to your computer and open them from there for now, till i get something better sorted out.
All images and texts on this site are copyright of the website author, except where indicated. Reproduction of these works are restricted. If you would like to use material from this website, please request for permission using the e-mail address given above.