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Title: Jan Patyra at Wallingford Camp, 1947 [Go to resource]
Description: Jan Patyra was one of the foreign workers who were employed at Huntley & Palmers after the end of World War 2. He was born in Poland in 1921 and fought in the Polish army during the Second World War. At the end of the war he came to England where he lived in a camp in Wallingford, near Reading. In 1948 he started work at Huntley & Palmers where he met his wife and they settled in Reading. Life was not always easy for the new foreign workers at Huntley & Palmers. The suspension ledger from 1951 recalls how one worker at the firm was discharged for threatening a Pole after a previous warning. Format: image/jpeg License: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=gateway&f=generic_sitetext%2ehtm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&cms_con_core_subtype%3acms_con_text_what=copyright&%3acms_sys_group=%22sopse%22 Rights holder: Reading Borough Council (Reading Museum Service) Subjects: migration
social history
trade
Patyra, Mr Jan
Second World War
recreation
warTemporal: start=1947-01-01; end=1947-12-31; Source: Sense of place SE Identifier: http://www.sopse.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.... Language: en-GB Format: image/jpeg Go to resource More Like this...
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