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Half-Way House Down Civvy-St

... are Merseysiders, and all are repatriates who have spent long periods in German prison camps and are now in No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit. The halfway house which is their headquarters is Peover Hall —Elizabethan and 19th Century Cheshire country mansion ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 235 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

INDIAN POSE

... are Merseysiders and all are repatriates who have spent long periods in German prison camps and are now in No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit. The “half-way house,” which is their headquarters, is Peover Hall—Elizabethan and nineteenth century Cheshire country ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 537 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

PATTON’S FORMER H.Q

... the Government realises the difficulties that Civil Resettlement Units have been set up. Training is entirely for the civil side of life.” TOURS TO FACTORIES To help the men to get their pre-view of civil life, tours have been arranged to a ...

Published: Friday 24 August 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Echo
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 424 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Through a Mansion to Civvy-st

... war are to~-day trying to catch up with the lost, years of their lives. The Army calls the Peover Hall camp No. 2 Civil Resettlement Unit. Traditional military atmosphere and discipline are taboo—no fatigues, mess with the officers, invitations to lectures ...

Published: Saturday 25 August 1945
Newspaper: Daily Dispatch (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 825 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

NOTES & COMMENTS

... Very inzerestina was a visit to Peover where the military authorities and the Ministry of Labour have set LLD a Civil Resettlement Unit—the eecond in the country—with the object of reconditioning ex-prisoners of war prior to their discharge from the ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: Winsford Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1928 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

DEATHS

... LIFE ANEW PEOVLR HALL RE-SETTLEMENT UNIT (By a Chronicle Reporter.) Former headquarters of General Patton. U.S Army, Peover Had. near Knulsford, the ancestral home of the nwaring family, has been opened as Cigil Resettlement Unit for ex-prisoners of war ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: Chester Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 1576 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Personal Visits

... relatives about special diets to supplement vitamin deficiency. All repatriated prisoners will be eligible to attend a Civil Resettlement Unit —there is one at Peover Hall, near Knutsford, catering mainly for men from the North - west area —where they can learn ...

Published: Saturday 01 September 1945
Newspaper: Manchester Evening News
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 785 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

HacA. is preparing tokio march

... Open To Demobbed Provision against the possible need of hospital and convalescent service is an important factor in re-settlement to civil life. It will be welcome news to many now being demobilised from the Forces to know that the facilities of the Id ...

Published: Monday 03 September 1945
Newspaper: Liverpool Evening Express
County: Lancashire, England
Type: | Words: 2802 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

NOTES & COMMENTS

... finance. The Finance Committee is the tell-tale of the system of somd local government ! When recently we visitec. the Civil Resettlement Centre at Peover Hall. near Knutsford. where exprboners of war are being re-conditioned before their re-entry into Civvy ...

Published: Saturday 15 September 1945
Newspaper: Winsford Chronicle
County: Cheshire, England
Type: | Words: 2035 | Page: 8 | Tags: none

London, Sunday Night,

... training schemes are get-\ ting many direct refusals. | Some of the British Legion branches are working in co-operation with resettlement offices in varions parts of the country. They are out to destroy ignorance which exists as to the working of the schemes ...

Published: Monday 17 September 1945
Newspaper: Daily Dispatch (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 385 | Page: 2 | Tags: none

Getting Ready for Home

... Getting Ready for Home Funds of knowledge learned in civil life were opened to each other, Cooks taught engaged girls “how, to cook the old man's dinner —in their own time, Former clerks taught = younger girls shorthand and typing. The AEC, grasped the ...

Published: Monday 24 September 1945
Newspaper: Daily Dispatch (Manchester)
County: Lancashire, England
Type: Article | Words: 201 | Page: 2 | Tags: none