 Depending on the nature and use of the forest camp, workers could be accommodated for periods of several days, weeks or months and in the case of refugee camps, even years.The Forests Commission built a new camp next to the Aire Valley Redwoods in March 1948 which consisted of a kitchen cookhouse and mess, shower block, toilets, woodshed and eighteen small two-man Stanley Huts.The bulk of the planting work in the Aire Valley Plantation was then done by post-war immigrants and refugees from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia.