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The prisoner of war camp closed in 1948.

Many of its inmates ' went native ', stayed in Britain and married local women.

Among those in the Huyton camp was Bert Trautmann who later went on to be the 1950s goalkeeper for Manchester City.

From 1944, American servicemen were temporarily stationed in Huyton.

Older Huytonians still recall the tensions between black and white G. I. s which resulted in a night known as ‘ the shoot out at the Eagle and Child ’ ( local public house ).