History
The Anzio Camp is situated near Leek in Staffordshire.
The camp was first used by the US Army in 1943, to house troops.
In 1945/6 the camp was taken over by Polish troops.
After the war it was used as a civilian settlement by the Poles until 1963/4 when they were moved to a purpose built site half a mile north of the camp
I cannot find much information on what the camp was used for between 1963 and the early 80's.
In 1980 the MOD took over the site and it was used as a training camp for Regular and Territorial Army troops and also scouts and cadets.
The camp closed in 2004 as it was deemed surplus to requirements by the MOD
It was bought in 2006 by care operator John Munroe Hospital, of Rudyard, with a view to developing a care home.
But the site was again sold, in July 2007, to a consortium of Courtyard Property Group and Smartwright Developments.
Planning officers recommended that the planning application is refused on the grounds that the site lies within open countryside on the fringe of the Peak District National Park, which is designated as a Special Landscape Area.
The camp was first used by the US Army in 1943, to house troops.
In 1945/6 the camp was taken over by Polish troops.
After the war it was used as a civilian settlement by the Poles until 1963/4 when they were moved to a purpose built site half a mile north of the camp
I cannot find much information on what the camp was used for between 1963 and the early 80's.
In 1980 the MOD took over the site and it was used as a training camp for Regular and Territorial Army troops and also scouts and cadets.
The camp closed in 2004 as it was deemed surplus to requirements by the MOD
It was bought in 2006 by care operator John Munroe Hospital, of Rudyard, with a view to developing a care home.
But the site was again sold, in July 2007, to a consortium of Courtyard Property Group and Smartwright Developments.
Planning officers recommended that the planning application is refused on the grounds that the site lies within open countryside on the fringe of the Peak District National Park, which is designated as a Special Landscape Area.
In 2010 the site was sold again to an Air soft company called first and Only.
Explore
Visited April 2010
This is our first Explore we have ever done after deciding where to go we decided to take a trip up to Blackshaw Moor to the army camp. When You get in You feel like a big kid running round a abandoned army camp, it’s great. Had a few games of army whilst exploring the buildings and the huge grounds. Most of the buildings though are same as each other apart from the canteen, theatre and pub. The place is completely vandalised and a few rooms have been burnt out looks like metal thieves have been in stealing the copper and even the hand rails and drain tops, so if You’re going then be careful where You tread. All in all the place is a good little explore well I say little there’s a lot of walking around building to building but it`s worth it, there is also a training ground at the top of the site for the big kids out there.
It was an army weekend training centre based on the original old wooden huts until it was demolished and rebuilt in the early 1980s. I believe Italian PoWs used it during WWII. We had a weekend camp over the Spring Bank Holiday weekend for the Queen's Silver Jubilee. It snowed ...heavily. As it was May we weren't allowed an allocation of coal to heat the huts. The rebuild was superb but was sold off.
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