Sefton Internment Camp

The camp was located in the Sefton Buildings, built during the 1890s next to the Gaiety Theatre, on the promenade in Douglas.

[1] It was one of the smallest of the ten internment camps on the island during World War II, with only 307 residents.

[3] The camp had a newspaper, the Sefton Review, published fortnightly from November 1940 to 3 February 1941. Notable editorial pieces concern its letters sent to notable politicians and public figures to try to find a sympathetic ear for their plight.

It also wrote to the Mayor of Coventry offering toys as gifts to families stricken by the bombings.

The Home Office then informed the Sefton Hotel Company, and tenants of the Church Road houses, that they could have their property back on 4 May 1941.