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Basketball game, Northumberland, c.1950

A basketball game at a displaced persons camp in Northumberland.

Displaced persons camps were set up across the UK after World War Two, they temporarily housed individuals who had been forcibly displaced from their home countries during the war, or who had chosen to relocate to the UK as part of the European Voluntary Workers Scheme.

Courtesy of Anne Tendal

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