FlightPaths 13 - Former Lincoln St. Marks Station: Departures
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The shopping centre is built on the site of Lincoln’s second railway station, St. Marks. The station’s grand portico still stands today, and you can walk between its columns just as countless passengers and servicemen and women would have done many years ago. The station, like Lincoln Central, would have seen arrivals from all over the world whose final destination was Lincoln. But as well as arrivals, the station would have seen departures as aircrew began the long journey home. For some, this was a simple return to their native land, but for others, it was less simple.
Many Polish servicemen and women could not return to their homeland for fear of reprisals by Poland’s new, Soviet-backed Communist regime. Many of these settled in Lincolnshire and began new lives. Poland’s Tadeusz Wierzbowski stayed on in the Royal Air Force and made his home here, continuing in the RAF for many more years. Watch his story in this short film.
This brings us to the end of the trail but hopefully not your journey. Discover more about Lincolnshire’s untold stories at www.wearethreshold.co.uk/projects/reimagining-lincolnshire/
