Casgliadau Arlein

Evalds Janis ('John') Licitus (second from left) at the training centre in Oakdale wainting for the Windsor Colliery bus. All six colliers in this photograph came from Germany together after the Second World War.

"I signed on in Windsor Colliery in March 1947. I became an assistant repairer with Jack Randall. I moved out from the camp to lodgings in Abertridwr and eventually met Mari in a dance at Abertridwr Church Hall in summer 1949." (Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields.)