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Post by Waverley on Jun 7, 2007 10:22:18 GMT 1
The first Polish person I ever met was a Peter Mroz who was the father of my childhood sweetheart Helen Mroz when I was a wean living in Arrol Place off the London Road... I believe he was a Polish ex-serviceman who married a Scots lassie - sadly we lost touch with the family when they moved away from Arrol Place.
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Post by Waverley on Jul 7, 2007 9:06:52 GMT 1
There is a wee colony of Polish immigrants in the east end I wonder if they will all be down at the Toll to see the Orange Walk coming back to Brigton tonight.
Seriously though there are literally hundreds of Polish immigrants in the Bridgeton and Parkhead area...so much so that several shops are now stocking and selling Polish food and delicasies.
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Post by marycarlin on Sept 5, 2007 22:08:05 GMT 1
One of my cousins married a Polish serviceman during the war. His name (excuse the spelling) was Toni Howzakovski - and my aunties used to call him "Toni Howzyerfaither". ;D He was the first foreigner I had ever met, and I thought he was very handsome and had lovely manners.
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Post by palaisgirl on Oct 11, 2007 21:24:27 GMT 1
My father was Polish his name was Frank Wojtas.
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Post by Waverley on Nov 27, 2007 8:55:33 GMT 1
Over 160,000 Poles fled to Britain to join the Free Polish Army during the Second World War many thousands of them being based in Army Camps in the Biggar and Clyde Valley area of Scotland...and they used the above Army insignia as their badge which is a combination of the Polish eagle and the Scots Rampant Lion.
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Post by pitbull on Jan 14, 2008 2:43:50 GMT 1
i know a few poles and they are all decent folk theres a big community of poles in hammersmith and they have there own centre, but whatever ye dae dont eat the food its worse than the germans.
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Post by palaisgirl on Jan 14, 2008 22:12:04 GMT 1
Their food might be crap but have you tried their Polish Vodka
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Post by palaisgirl on Mar 2, 2008 19:45:59 GMT 1
on know if this is the right thread or not but these were my dad's discharge papers when he lef t the Army
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Post by palaisgirl on Mar 2, 2008 19:47:48 GMT 1
Also I found this amongst his papers it says Polish resettlement section
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Post by Waverley on Mar 2, 2008 20:18:46 GMT 1
Where do I know that name from...Wojtas.
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Post by palaisgirl on Mar 2, 2008 21:02:41 GMT 1
Me, its ma name
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Post by Waverley on Mar 2, 2008 21:48:33 GMT 1
Aye I know that wumman but I am sure that I have heard that name somewhere else in Parkhead...is there a Lilybank link here somewhere.
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Post by pitbull on Mar 3, 2008 0:23:36 GMT 1
he was probaly yer auld cellmate in bar-l charlie that mr wojtas, or yer time keeper at work. there was a few polish guys in my building sites were polish. an sure cherry blossom ooops i mean palais girl.... haha
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Post by Waverley on Mar 22, 2008 1:12:56 GMT 1
The east end of Glasgow is hoatching with Poles and other east Europeans and there has already been several incidents between them and local youths...
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Post by pwm437 on Mar 22, 2008 9:31:05 GMT 1
Lets hope they intigrate without too much hassle. I'm sure they have something to offer Glasgow, and we really don't need any more violence, sectarianism or prejudice.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2008 19:33:34 GMT 1
The poles are over here working for a lot less wages than us the building sites are full of them. wait and see what happens when the work run out scurry back to Poland i bet. The point is Alex why do we need to import foreign workers when there are plenty able bodied British workers unemployed...
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Post by adaline on Apr 3, 2008 14:14:36 GMT 1
I was away at the weekend and was staying at the Rob Roy hotel in Aberfoyle and the waiters there were all polish and they couldn't do enough for us nothing was a bother.
Don't know if they were just being polite or they were feart oh us 14 wummin.
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Post by peggy on Apr 5, 2008 0:27:06 GMT 1
I felt so embarrassed one day I got a taxi home as I got talking to the driver I detected the accent I asked him where he came from and he said Poland.
He went on th say he had been here in our country for 7 years and he loved it he said he couldn't understand our government he then went on to say the government make it to easy for British people to stay on the dole, as he said he has a family to feed and he loves the fact he could provide for them .
The thing is I had to agree with him as I feel its made way to easy for people to become lazy and were is there pride they don't want to get up in the mornings if they are getting more from the government lying in their beds maybe more people should take a wee tip from this Polish guy he talked sense .
I say get out of bed and look for work thats what I say and if your desperate enough for work you will take anything if you have some pride.
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Post by Waverley on May 27, 2008 10:07:23 GMT 1
Most of my mates who work in the building trade have nothing but respect and good words for the Poles who work beside them. Well... apart from one of the who fired a whole squad of them because they were all lazy bassas according to him but I think he just took his hatred of Artur Boruc out on his countrymen.
In conversation with my son and his friends who are regular visitors to Hamburg they tell me that most of the West Germans they know consider all East Germans to be Poles or Arabs and have no time for the reunified Germany. Strange world we live in especially when there are certain sections of the Polish football fans who consider themselves to be Neo-Nazis...and this seems also to be the case with some Russian teams as well.
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Post by holywell37 on May 27, 2008 16:08:06 GMT 1
lets get things straight, these new poles that have come to scotland are a lot differrent from the ones that came over in the war years. the migrant workers we have now are taking jobs from the indigenous people (harper collins', fish farms, sainsburys and most other firms) because they don't have to pay them the minimum wage. all the big high st shops employ them as well, at the expense of local people.
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Post by Waverley on May 27, 2008 16:13:01 GMT 1
So why did we bring them over in the first place if there were people queueing up to take these jobs ...
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Post by holywell37 on May 27, 2008 16:24:38 GMT 1
european rules tearlach, we don't have a say in the matter.
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Post by holywell37 on May 27, 2008 16:29:54 GMT 1
sorry tearlach, i should have said, in firms like harper collins people were made redundant and then poles were taken on.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2008 16:12:18 GMT 1
If that's the case, I would say those made redundant should have a good claim at a tribunal. When redundancies happen, it's because the job in question has been abolished because it is no longer considered necessary. Strictly speaking, it's the positions that are made redundant, not the people. If you sack people because their jobs have become redundant and then employ other people to do the same jobs, then obviously the positions are not redundant and the people should never have been sacked in the first place.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 5, 2008 7:46:36 GMT 1
If that's the case, I would say those made redundant should have a good claim at a tribunal. When redundancies happen, it's because the job in question has been abolished because it is no longer considered necessary. Strictly speaking, it's the positions that are made redundant, not the people. If you sack people because their jobs have become redundant and then employ other people to do the same jobs, then obviously the positions are not redundant and the people should never have been sacked in the first place. See there you go simple logic by oor BillyDan...when the East End gets Independence I know who I will appoint as Minister of Labour and Employment. ;D
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Post by holywell37 on Aug 6, 2008 12:28:23 GMT 1
regardless of what you say about tribunals and such, the poles are still replacing our own people. they work for a lot less than the minimum wage and bare time for their overtime.
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Post by banksandbraes on Jan 9, 2009 23:06:57 GMT 1
My Aunty (Mother's sister) married a Pole after the war, they lived in Glasgow until about 1955 then they emigrated to Canada, I was only little but remember him being a very nice person, I didn't think he was any different to us, just a different accent and he didn't get drunk like a lot of Glesga men did
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Post by ixus55 on Jan 15, 2009 10:42:23 GMT 1
Just heard Arnold Clark paid off their valets who wash and polish their cars and employed Poles to do the work for less money. Anybody heard this? Ixus 55
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Post by norrie on Jan 18, 2009 16:00:30 GMT 1
Hi ixus55, I would have thought that if this story was true it would have hit the newspapers. A friend of mine's, wife works for Arnold Clark I will ask her. Bye for now, norrie
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Post by brownlee on Feb 8, 2009 14:38:10 GMT 1
Welcome the Poles.
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