Irek. So we went to school locally and like most Polish... There was a hub, if you like, of a Polish community in the Clapham and Balham area. I think partly that was because there was a... y of my generation. That building then became the Polish school, which was set up by pan Arciszewski and his wife.
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And so I learnt my Polish not only at home, but also at the Bursa where there was a whole curriculum, Polish language, there was a nursery. And so the buildin
nd still lives in the same house I was born in in Balham. My parents were very, very much involved with the formation of the Polish White Eagle Club. My father was the sekretarz for... architect behind the old people's home behind the Polish Club, and also the sala młodzieżowa and things wh... w do you remember growing up in the ‘60s, ‘70s in Balham? How was it for you?
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AÅš: Very fondly. [laughter] The Polish parish was a very, very tight knit community. We
lly I think there was… The Poles bought their own church in Balham, but that was many, many years later, but there was also a church inside Clapham College and sometimes we would go
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