The Baker

So what do you know about the Polish camp then?
Well, as I say, my uncle, when I came out of the army, my uncle had established the round and I started delivering on the, well, as far as I knew it was four sites, but the bit in between on Cross Lane was a smaller bit so I started delivering there when I took over from him. The Polish camp was established then and there were people moving in and out and I went doing this bread round, it must have been 50 because we’d finished bread rationing by then because we didn’t get bread rationing until after the war, interestingly. All the grain that was coming from Canada was going into Europe. So we had bread rationing and I took over over there. All the younger people who could speak English, ‘cos they learnt English quite rapidly, as they’d learnt a fair number of other languages quite rapidly, were busy working in Melton because the one thing about the Polish community was they assimilated fast, they were hard workers and other than the accent, they were well accepted in the town, very well accepted.