Warth Mills Internment Camp (SS Andoria Star)

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Reference WMO/303170

Address:

Milford Drive

Bury

BL9 9TZ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Other sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Stone (any)
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: The memorial is in a grassed open space and consists of concrete casts of suitcase, on the top of which is the metal plaque in the first photo. During WW2, foreign nationals were sent to internment camps such as the one at Warth Mills, taking their possessions in suitcases like these. Later in the war, they were sent to the USA, and during this journey, a German torpedo struck. (See links) The memorial was placed there at the junction with Worth Road in Dec 2018
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