Nissen hut

She said she would be living in a structure like a Nissen hut - an Army structure - but had "been reassured it's quite cosy".

He says tank tracks can still be seen on the ground between the Whipping Stocks pub and the country house, though the Nissen huts that lined the grounds are long gone.

Life in the RAF proved to be a series of Nissen huts, prefabricated structures made of corrugated iron bent over a semi-circular frame and heated with a single wood- or coal-burning stove.

Internees detained in RAF Nissen huts in wired compounds that look like a WW2 German Prisoner of War camp.

They grew up on former Bobbin Mill site in Pitlochry, living in a prefabricated World War Two-style Nissen hut which had no electricity, a coal fire for heating and candles for lighting.