Lists of  known Polish Family camps 1947-1969

 

 When I have enough information about a camp I add a page to this site.  Please help me fill in the gaps.

 
 

 CAMPS ON LINE
Northwick Park Camp  Gloucestershire N.A.B.Polish Families camp 1947 to 1970. Kelvedon Essex 1949-1958/59 Families IN THE MAKING.
Ashby Folville Camp  Leicestershire closed 1956/58.  NEW upload Keevil Steeple Ashton nr Trowbridge Wiltshire Family camp1949--1957/8
Babdown    Gloucestershire N.A.B. Family Camp 1948 to 1959 Ludford Magna Lincolnshire  RAF camp 1940 to 1945 Major Polish transit camp for up to 700 refugees until around 1948/9 with a dwindling core of about 40 families remaining beyond 1955/56
Blackshaw Moor camp StaffordshireN.S.H.C.  Families camp 1947 to 1961 Market Harborough camp  Leicestershire also known as (Lubbenham) NEW upload
Checkendon  Berkshire Polish hoste l1948 to 1961 had a Polish school with about 40 children.  Head teacher was H.L.M. Mason, Mrs A. Mróz teacher Prist J. Nowak. Melton Mowbray  Leicestershire N.A.B. Families 1947 to 1961/62
Daglingworth  Gloucestershire N.A.B Polish Families camp, closed on termination  of lease by 1961 Morpeth Common Northumberland Family camp 1947-1962
Delamere Park. Northwich  Cheshire P.R. C. Polish Family Camp1949-1963 Podington  Bedfordshire 1948- 1956 In the early 50s there were 300 Poles (squatting in camp) in the camp.
Doddington camp nr Crewe. Cheshire    2nd largest  NAB Families camp 1960/61 New  pages 4  5 and 6 have been up loaded. Penley North Wales. 1946  2002  (known as  No. 3 Hospital )with just a hand full of patient left the old hospital wards were closed. A new little hospital now stands at one end of the camp grounds. Iscoyd Park North Wales 1947-1956 Polish Military Hospital. (  known as hospital 4)
East Moor  NEW PAGE 4 Yorkshire NAB  Polish dependants camp1948/9 to 1959 in 1949 there were 223 men ,271 women and 187 children living in the camp Springhill Lodges Gloucestershire N.A.B. Polish Families camp 1947 to 1958
Fairford Camp N.A.B. Gloucestershire was the largest Polish Families camp. Had to be closed on termination of lease by 1959 Seighford Staffordshire N.A.B. Polish family Camp
Foxley Herefordshire closed 1955 Stowell Park School Gloucestershire NEW upload
Husbands Bosworth Camp Leicestershire Families Diddington Park School  Huntingdonshire
Hodgemoor nr Amersham Buckinghamshire 1947 - 1959 Families Lilford School Northamptonshire
Hiltingbury  Southampton Polish Second Corps' dependents' hostel In 1947 there were 843 people living in the camp.  Southampton Council re-housed the remaining families in council houses and the camp closed in 1956/57. NEW upload Tilstock   Higher Heath Shropshire Polish  army families camp 1947 until late1950s
Haydon Park  Somerset Was for a while the Josef Conrad secondary Polish school also home to DP families closed 1955/6 Tweesdmuir camp  Surrey
Ilford Park nr. Stover Devon Families up to the 60s today newly built retirement home and hospice. Wheaton Aston Camp Staffordshire Families 1965/66
   
 

CAMPS  for which I am seeking information and photos.
Lowther Park Penrith N.A.B.  Polish Dependants Camp1 948 In 1949 there were 116 men 106 women and 74 children The camp closed in 1955 /6 Penrhos North Wales. RAF aerodrome. PKPR. (Polish demobilisation Corps) Today a Polish retirement home run by Polish Housing Society Ltd.
Mepal  Cambridgeshire1948-1958 Families Wrottesley camp Wolverhanpton
Kelstern   Airfield LincolnN.A.B. Polish dependent Hostel. In 1949 there were 81 men, 124 women and 87 Juveniles and children living in the Hostel. Hazlemere High Wycombe 1948 P.In 1951 with arrival of 70 Polish families  the camp it lost it's military  character becoming a hostel for civilians.  It closed  in 1955/6
Bower Wood Beaconsfield Buckinghamshire. Families  1955/56 Elsham Wolds Lincolnshire RAF Camp run by the war office.1948 to 1953
Long Marston Warwickshire MOD Central Engineers stores and  camp for Polish demobilised  soldiers worked and lived  1948 to 1968. Marsworth  near Dunstable 1949 Tring Herts. Temporarily ex- army accommodation Families Camp closed 1960/61

Nettlebed Hostel 1947 to 1955

 Carr Lane Hull
Great Missenden Woodlands Park camp military and families 1956 Petworth camp West Sussex Had a Polish school and library 1949 to 1955
Hallburn Hostel LongtownCumberland1947---1953/4  in 1952 there were 32 Polish families Southrop
Hardwick Park Chesterfield  1947 1955 Weeting Hall Norfolk1949 to  1955  Families.
Grove Park Iver  Buckinghamshire.  When the military moved out in the late 40s the camp was occupied by squatters, families of Polish soldiers with no were else to go.  In1957the war office closed the camp evicting 4 families with children and giving a months notice to the remaining twenty three people. St.Mawgan N.A.B. Polish dependants hostel. In 1949 there were 103 men, 71 women and 62 Juveniles and children living on the site.
Breighton Airfield  North Yorkshire In 1949 there were 35 Polish families living there. Damfield Lane / Maghull Liverpool Transit camp for Polish soldier's families
Burlington Crossing Stourport In  1951 there were nine Polish families in residence. Sturgate Airfield Lincoln
Perton Hostel  Wolverhampton RAF Perton was a small training establishment with the potential of housing many families. In was a mixed Anglo Polish Hostel Lulsgate Bottom Ex RAF Camp nr. Bristol in1953 there were 26 Polish families living there. To day is the site of Bristol Air Port
   
 

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