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    George Scott and Keith McLennan from Sydney, Australia, 1945

 

At the close of the Second World War in 1945 Commonwealth prisoners of war (POW’s) freed from German POW camps were invited to the UK by the Round Table for a period of recuperation and nutritional build up prior to the long journey back to Australia and New Zealand.

 

Mr. George Scott had founded Cockermouth Rotary and they invited a group of these ex-POWs to stay in their homes.

 

Mr. Keith McLennan of Sydney, Australia, stayed with the Scott’s for a week or so at Midtown, Lorton.

 

In the 1980’s he returned to visit the Scott’s with his second wife (his first wife died just after the end of the Second World War of a brain tumour). He tried to find the Scott’s house, which he remembered was by the monkey puzzle tree which grew there, but it had blown down in the intervening years. Enquiries soon pointed him in the right direction.