An advert for the sale of huts after the war (Priestley, WW1 Clipstone Camp, 2019) provides good detail of their construction, giving their measurements as 61ft x 21ft, with 12 windows and 2 doors. The roofs were felt and the sides were weatherboarded. The floors were wooden. (1)

Machine Gunner Frederick Plimmer arrived at Clipstone Camp in 1917. In his oral history (Plimmer, n.d.) recalls the barrack huts being 30x18ft, with beds along both sides, and a fire in the middle. Meals were brought into the huts from the cookhouse. Plimmer was impressed with the flushing toilets and wash and bathhouses. (1)

The men’s straw filled mattresses, called paillasses, were raised off the floor on three planks. (1)

Heating was provided by a central coke stove, and each hut had its own post-box (Ottewell, 2005). (1)

Huts in line numbers 11-13 were initially retained for colliery workers. The remainder were sold off and adverts for the sale of buildings and equipment appeared in the local newspapers throughout 1920 and 1921. Many of the huts purchased by the local community for use as homes and community buildings, including for the colliery school. Some of these purchases and conversions are recorded by J C Fareham. (1)

All the huts repurposed in Clipstone village have now been demolished. (1)

Chris Kolonko (Kolonko, WW1 Clipstone Camp, 2015) appears to have found a hut believed to have come from Clipstone, still in use in 2019 (and maybe still) by the Women’s Institute, in Station Street, Bingham, Nottinghamshire.(1)

<1> Helen Wallbridge, 2023, From Forest to Frontline: Understanding Clipstone Camp through Archival Research (Unpublished document). SNT5925.