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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Group of Polish workers at Ystrad Mynach Training Centre. Piotr ('Peter') Ananicz is second from the left - "Piotr was sent to the Miners' Trainning Centre in Oakdale in June 1947 and lived in the miners' hostel in Ystrad Mynach. After training he was sent to Windsor Colliery in July and initially lived in lodgings in Abertridwr. (Source: Glo. All Poles? Foreign Workers in the Welsh Coalfields.)