Thanks to Gary Cross for the following news about the camps in Dortmund:

"I tried today to enter Napier Barracks but had no success. The camp is the only one still standing here in Dortmund as all the other camps have been demolished.

At the B1 (dual carriage way that runs through Dortmund) they are building offices and homes and at camp 7 (that's where the big NAAFI stood), they are building new houses. Cornwall school is still there, it is now called Europe school (a German secondary school).

Napier Barracks however was closed in 1995 and has been standing empty since then, it's being turned now into a training ground for Borussia Dortmund FC and they want to keep the Nature reserve. The Golf Club has 19 holes now and they want to build more houses in that area."

Our thanks go to Keith Holderness who administers the 36 Regiment web site and photographer Bill Williams, who have supplied some of the photos for this story. You can visit 36 Regiment's site by clicking here.

The photographs from inside Napier Barracks have been published by kind permission of Bernhard Weiss who runs the "Fliegerhorste" (Air- Stations) web site.

In addition there is a complete site dedicated to Napier Barracks which you can access by by clicking here.