These cookies are absolutely essential for our website to function properly.
We use Google Analytics to measure how you use the website so we can improve it based on user needs.
These cookies may be set by third party websites and do things like measure how you view YouTube videos.
Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Wasyl ('Bill') Welykyi at Pencoed Miners' Hostel, where he arrived on 1 May 1948. From here he obtained employment as a wood machinist with P. Bendall Ltd.
"In January 1948 I was given the choice of going to several different countries. In Britain we were given the choice of working on a farm, in a brick works, or in coal mining. I chose coal mining because there was a chance of schooling. After training at Oakdale, I chose to work at Llanharan Colliery. I lived in the Pencoed Miners' Hostel". (Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields).
