The Colonies
Montrose, TAYSIDE - Mall Park House
Short notes
- This was the only colony in Scotland
- Most of the children were repatriated, except those whose family were in exile or had died.
Articles concerning this colony
Names of some of the Basque children at Montrose
The Montrose colony — by Forbes Inglis
Basque Children's Colony, Montrose — Sunday Post, 21 July 1985
Dundee & Montrose Press Cuttings 1937
Background to the Montrose Colony
Another Blue Plaque Unveiled! (Montrose) — by Carmen Coupland
Scotland's forgotten Spanish Civil War Refugee Colony — by Gaizka Garamendi
Newsletter items concerning this colony
Newsletter No. 9, page 5 — Blue plaque at Montrose
Newsletter No. 13, page 5 — The plaque at Montrose
Links to external sites concerning this colony
The Scotsman: "Scotland's forgotten Spanish Civil War refugee colony", June 2016
Imperial War Museum's War Memorials Register: "Basque Refugee Children of Spanish Civil War"
BCA'37 UK papers at the Southampton Archives
Contemporary newspaper extracts and reports about this colony
View the extracts, curated by Gaizka Garamendi, by newspaper title or by year, or both.
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