Having grown up in Bradford and educated at Catholic schools I was alongside kids whose parents had ended up in Bradford as a result of World War II. These included Czechs, Poles and Ukrainians. The Ukrainians and the Polish have social clubs in the area and both communities also kept up their traditions of dance and music. In the early 1980s the Boar's Head Morrismen of Bradford occasionally organised a ceilidh, and at more than one of these were dance displays by either Polish or Ukrainian dancers. If I recall correctly, the Poles were the ones with red leather boots and peacock feathers.
Bradford also contains Estonians and Latvians. The father of a schoolfriend was from Byelorussia (he never accepted the takeover of his country by Poland before it in turn was invaded by Germany).
Many refugees were male, often alone with the rest of their families still behind the Iron Curtain following the war. This led to a situation where it was not possible for them to meet and marry a girl from their own nation. After the war a lot of Italian girls moved to work in the woollen mills and there are a number of families where the father was from one of the Eastern European countries and the mother was Italian.

CYM, the Ukrainian Youth Association

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Geoff.