Beside a minor road a mile and a half south of Lockerbie stand a few weatherworn prefabricated huts. They are all that remains of the Hallmuir Prisoner of War Camp. Brown tourist signs from the edge of Lockerbie help visitors find a destination that could otherwise be hard to find. The reason for seeking out the site can be found in one of the huts which, though completely unremarkable from the outside, houses the superb Hallmuir Ukrainian Chapel, built here by Ukrainian internees who occupied the camp from May 1947. 

This information is taken from the Undiscovered Scotland website, which you can look at if you wish to know more about why Ukranian prisoners of war came to Lockerbie.


We visited the chapel today on our way home from Eskdalemuir, where we had gone to see my friend Stephanie's photo exhibition (open every day in August at the Community Hub, if you're in the area).


A couple of years ago, I heard this music performed in Dumfries by the Ukranian Boyan Choir. It made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up...