PRISONERS-OF-WAR are making their way to Eden Camp once more.

Sixty years have passed since the first shabby prisoners arrived at the site on the outskirts of Malton.

Over the Easter weekend a group of re-enactors will be marched through the parade square, drilled and issued with site duties.

Visitors to the award-winning museum will watch as up to 50 re-enactors will take on the roles of both captors and captives.

Museum archivist Nick Hill said: "Our site is ideal for re-enacting groups.

"It gives the public a chance to see the kits close up, and talk to them about what life would have been like as a PoW because they really are genned up about it."

Mr Hill said he hoped the annual event would take on added poignancy because of the 60th anniversary.

He said the group was getting into the spirit of what it would have been like at Eden Camp during and after the Second World War.

He said: "The re-enactors are staying over the weekend in the barrack huts at the camp.

"We have been promised some escape attempts this year so we will have to wait and see what they have planned."

Updated: 10:18 Saturday, March 30, 2002