After the second world war, a Polish Resettlement Corps was raised as part of the British Army to allow Polish servicemen wishing to remain in the West to be demobilized and resettled to Britain. Some 125,000 chose to do this, the number growing to 200,000 when soldiers were joined by families who had spent the war in refugee camps in British colonies. The only way such a vast number of people could be accommodated in post-war Britain was by placing them in ex-army camps. Dozens across the country were turned into Polish resettlement camps, having been built in rural areas in the early 1940s for the American and Canadian troops. Blackshaw Moor in Staffordshire became one of them. This post discusses the memories of people who grew up there.
