About this Event
Join us for an evening celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the founding of both the port of Gdynia and the Polish State Railways at the Polish centre in Hammersmith.
Talking and Exploring and Polish Social and Cultural Association (POSK) have come together again to celebrate the Polish Heritage Days with the support from the Polish Embassy in the UK.
The main talk will be given by Joanna Dudzinska, the Founder and Director of Talking and Exploring. She will cover the inter-war period when the newly imdependent Poland needed to develop her industries and unify what had been for over a century three separate and largely neglected parts of the partitioning powers of the Russian , Austro-Hungarian and Prussian empires. She will also make some comparisons with what was happening in West London, specifically in Acton, by way of industrial development in these decades.
The construction of Gdynia, a city-port built from scratch replacing the old fishing village, and the development of industry along with the provison of State Railways was a huge task that was given some financial and technical help from different Western European countries amongst whom were the British. Anthony Smith, Joanna's assistant at Talking and Exploring, will give some examples of Polish- British technical co-operation before, during and after these decades.
The project is supported by the Association of the Polish Engineers in the United Kingdom, Golden Opportunity and Skills Development (GOSaD), Artification and ActOne Cinema.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Polish Social and Cultural Association POSK, 238-246 King Street, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
