Fozzer wrote:A bit of Polish History a few miles from me, in the village of Mancel Lacy, in Herefordshire.
I well remember the camp in its heyday in the late 1940's.
I can still ride my Motorcycle through its grounds, although its buildings are no longer there, traces of the camp can be seen on Google Street Maps.
My parents were placed in a camp at Daglingworth (Glos), but many of my later friends spent their early years at another camp at [RAF] Fairford. We moved up to Leeds (yuk!!) later, but spent a few summers at grand-dad's camp at Ludford Magna (nr. Market Rasen, Lincoln).
As these camps were usually on (or near) RAF bases, many of our childhood days were spent exploring these magical places. Real "Boy's Own" stuff!! We must have been poor as church mice, but I had the happiest of childhoods.
Much later, I moved back to Gloucestershire - only a few miles from where the old camp was. Again, I have only the fondest memories of it. I wonder what the old English for "Mancel" meant - as there was a village near me called Frampton Mansell - and "Mansell" is a fairly common surname.
Adam.
Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:39 pm
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) and this "war" has probably bored (or simply confused) everyone here for *years*. It's all fun, though, and isn't likely to end - unless people find it offensive, in which case we'll probably both accuse them of "sense of humour" failures and carry on anyway! 
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Or I will consider it an act of hostility.