It didn't look like much, just rows of wooden barracks. Certainly nothing you or I would think to call "home".
Yet, to a large number of Polish families who'd been forced to flee their homes during WWII, this former RAF base in Pwllheli, north Wales would become just that. A safe haven from the fascism they had fought and the oppression they'd escaped, in 1949 this unassuming enclave transformed into a thriving community which would endure for decades.
Made up of battle-weary Polish soldiers, airmen and their families, this spot - dubbed Penrhos Polish Village - was where they'd be 're-assimilated' into civilian society and start afresh in a foreign country. But, all the while, the love they had for their homeland and its traditions never left them and became increasingly intrinsic in their everyday lives.
