David Stirling was an unorthodox officer, and the elite special forces unit he created in North Africa was equally ...

A hut built by the army during the Second World War could be demolished to make way for a storage business under new plans.

The original prefabricated structures were based on the Nissen huts that the British used during World War I. First manufactured in 1941, these buildings were designed to be shipped overseas and ...

The utilities and boilers are housed in a hangar-like space of corrugated steel, like a Savile Row version of a Nissen hut The utilities and boilers are placed to the north in a hangar-like space ...

It still contains a water tower, headquarters, accommodation blocks, ablution block, Nissen Hut and guard's hut beside its entrance. Hundreds of captured personnel were housed on the site ...

Fenland councillors have been recommended to refuse plans to transform Fridaybridge Agricultural Camp at Friday Bridge, between Wisbech and Downham Market, when they meet on April 30. Proposals ...

Now that particular place we actually got that closed down. STEVE:We did the last families that were living in Nissen Huts. They'd been built by the Italian prisoners of war. NARRATOR:'Nissen Huts ...