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Post by pawel40 on Sept 18, 2006 10:46:14 GMT
Does anyone have any information about the location and life at the Polish Camp situated just outside Bristol near the towns of Pill and Easton-in-Gordano in Somerset? I have come up against a brick wall in my research, and so any information about the camp, especially around 1947, would be a great help.
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Post by pathealey on Nov 18, 2014 10:42:11 GMT
So that's two of us in eight years who are interested in Easton in Gordano PRC camp. Was it tiny by comparison to others I wonder. I wonder if previous post is still alive.
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Post by pawel40 on Dec 21, 2014 14:45:48 GMT
From what I've discovered so far, the Camp was not a family PRC camp (like Stowell Park, for instance), but a all male workers hostel. I tried finding any records for it as a National Assistance Board hostel, but drew a blank. It may be the case that the Hostel was not exclusively for demobbed Polish Corps veterans, but housed many nationalities, as well as technically homeless British labourers. The Hostel may well have been owned by a fruit import/export company called "Messrs. Intrades (Avonmouth)", which is the lead I am following up now. As for location, I've been in touch with the Crockerne Pill historical society, who tell me there was a camp in a former Anti-Aircraft Battery on the Martcombe Road, Easton-in-Gordano (A369)near the Rudgeleigh public house. I don't think this is the one I'm interested in. The other possibility is a decoy oil terminal camp (built in an attempt to disorientate Luftwaffe crews from bombing Avonmouth)which was on Marsh Lane, (now industrialised and part of Royal Portbury Dock development c.1960's). Concrete paths and old hard-standings for Nissen Huts still exist today, but are part of a static caravan park.
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tom40
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Post by tom40 on Sept 29, 2021 16:29:31 GMT
Dear Paweł.
Did you had any luck with locating Easton Gordano Camp?
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Post by windrush on Oct 26, 2022 13:39:10 GMT
Hello, my interest in Easton-in-Gordano is because two Polish passengers (a mother and a daughter with the surname Procyk) on the Empire Windrush gave it as their address in 1948 when they sailed from Mexico to Tilbury. They eventually emigrated to America but I can find no trace of the husband/father who I believe was called Antoni (or Anthony). None of the other 64 Polish people on the Windrush gave an address of Easton-in-Gordano. Anyone got any more details please? Thanks.
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