Stories.

I used to wonder what those rooms had been used for during the war. Long after leaving the school, I discovered that the hostel was specifically built to accommodate Bevin […]

Peter Nissen, the Inventor of the Nissen Hut, was born in the USA in on the 6th August 1871.  He attended Trinity College, North Carolina leaving in 1891.  In 1896 […]

Georg Hermanus Nissen was brought up in Norway in a ship building family based in Bergen.  As was normal in their period, the second and later sons were obliged to emigrate […]

This is the story of Georg Hermanus Nissen’s tools and the tool chest that we have inherited. I believe that he gave his tools to his son (Peter) when he travelled […]

We have inherited Georg Nissen’s tool chest as it has been handed down through the family. The chest we have seems too small for a craftsman of the time, but […]