The picture shows a concert given by the German Prisoners of War at Radwinter North Camp, in the grounds of the requisitioned Radwinter Rectory, now Radwinter Manor.The artist who painted the scenery shown, was Karl Weschke, the prisoner who became the leading artist of the Cornish School and who stayed on in England dying in 2005.

Radwinter School

Previous to the year 1850 the only Day Schools in Radwinter, as in other country villages, were three or four Dames Schools held in cottages in different parts of the Parish, each consisting of from 12 to 20 children, most of whom were girls, as the boys went to work with their fathers, sometimes at as early an age as five; and, as a result, many of them grew up without being able either to read or write. There was, however, a flourishing Sunday School, which used to meet at the Vicarage, where the elder girls often repeated the Collect, Epistle, and Gospel for the day, almost without a mistake.

In the year 1854 Jonathan Bullock Esq., of Faulkbourn Hall, gave to the Parish the site in Limber on which the present School Buildings stand. The money required was got together by the Rector from his parishioners and friends; the Committee of Council on Education contributing £360 on the condition that the School should always be open to visits from Her Majesty's Inspectors.