Location: Pergamos

Name:Pergamos
BFPO:58
Camp:Pergamos Camp
Town:ESBA
Country:Cyprus
Type(s):Primary
Notes

Location provided by the Pergamos Facebook Group.

Pergamos Camp with the school marked.......date uncertain.
The housing is all in place but the RAF Signals Unit is no longer there.

The entrance to Pergamos Camp.

This is the Pergamos school fancy dress party 1961. The school building, a converted AMQ is behind us.
It had two classrooms for senior and junior kids and the legendary Mr. Valentine (not shown) was our Head Master.
Miss Thorne is the lady teacher there. The aerials in the background belong to 264 Signals Unit.
A new school was built shortly afterwards.
Image and information courtesy of David Cramp (via the Pergamos Facebook group).

An image with (possibly) Mr. Valentine taken at the site of the new school (constructed from sandstone blocks).
"Mr Valentine was balding, always wore a jacket and tie even on the hottest of days and when out and about he always wore a trilby".

The header of a school report from around this time.

School sports day believed to be mid-1980s.

Class photograph from 1984.

A later class image from 1991.

The former Pergamos Camp is located in an isolated area of the ESBA close the border with the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.

It was built in the late 1950s close to Pergamos village (Turkish Cypriot).

It was the home of 264 RAF Signals unit and a residential camp for the families about the size of a village.

When the unit moved back to Ayios Nikolaos, the camp was used to accommodate visiting military personnel from the army, air force and navy and their families.

In autumn 1971 it became the home of C Company, The Blues and Royals.

Pergamos camp was also the home to CJSATC from 1981 to 1991, when it moved to Dhekelia Garrison.

The camp contained many bungalows, apartment blocks, a SCEA primary school, two pubs, a youth group, a swimming pool, a park and a small supermarket.

However, in the late 1990s, the residents were moved to new quarters in Ayios Nikolaos and the camp was formally closed.
 
The camp was demolished on 10 February 1997 by 62 Cyprus Sqn RE.

Pergamos Camp (date unknown) with all buildings demolished.

The Association is very grateful to the Pergamos Facebook Group for several of the above images.