Sounds familiar..?
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Mick_S
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Betterer and betterer.Have a look at fuukstone
My knowledge of Slavic languages is limited to Russian and some Ukrainian (different alphabets but same principles) but it looks genuine.
Upminster makes sense also ))
jayzedkay
Club Member
thats brilliant.
i'm of polish descent; my grandparents having been put to works camps in siberia from belarus by stalin prior to WWII.
on release from the camps when hitler kicked off. my grandfather spent most of his time in italy fighting nazis (Anders army).
my grandmother, with four kids and pregnant with my mother travelled east, thorugh the 'stans' eventually settling in a camp what was then rhodesia. eventually all settling in the uk midlands in one of the ex-raf refugee camps in '48 after the war. my mother was about 8 years old.
eventually moving out to their own house in '66 when i was born, my mother now an adult, married, already having two kids, my sisters.
my father had a similiar story; family exiled to siberia when he was just a boy, released, travel to camps in africa. he arrived in the uk about 14-15 years old. tool old for school and bit young for work. he went into the merchant navy, spending most if his time in that scotland. eventually getting with my mother and eventually away from seafaring and working locally.
i grew up speaking polish, though i'm not fluent, i can more than get by.
i totally see those town names and why they spelt them like they did.
tunbridge-wells is a good one
i.e. the 'L' with a line through is pronounced like a soft 'w' not an L.
An 'L' (ell) wont have the line through it.
i'm of polish descent; my grandparents having been put to works camps in siberia from belarus by stalin prior to WWII.
on release from the camps when hitler kicked off. my grandfather spent most of his time in italy fighting nazis (Anders army).
my grandmother, with four kids and pregnant with my mother travelled east, thorugh the 'stans' eventually settling in a camp what was then rhodesia. eventually all settling in the uk midlands in one of the ex-raf refugee camps in '48 after the war. my mother was about 8 years old.
eventually moving out to their own house in '66 when i was born, my mother now an adult, married, already having two kids, my sisters.
my father had a similiar story; family exiled to siberia when he was just a boy, released, travel to camps in africa. he arrived in the uk about 14-15 years old. tool old for school and bit young for work. he went into the merchant navy, spending most if his time in that scotland. eventually getting with my mother and eventually away from seafaring and working locally.
i grew up speaking polish, though i'm not fluent, i can more than get by.
i totally see those town names and why they spelt them like they did.
tunbridge-wells is a good one
i.e. the 'L' with a line through is pronounced like a soft 'w' not an L.
An 'L' (ell) wont have the line through it.
How's the weather down in Bekshyl today. . .
