{"id":589,"date":"2017-06-02T09:44:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandonheritage.org.uk\/?p=589"},"modified":"2017-06-02T09:44:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-02T08:44:35","slug":"589-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/?p=589","title":{"rendered":"Polish 2nd Corps visit Brandon (1946)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Polish Army disembark in Brandon, 1946 &#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>Following the end of the Second World War there was a large settlement of Polish ex-servicemen into Brandon.\u00a0 They have since been credited with restoring the weekly market in the years following the war and many created their own businesses which are still thriving today.\u00a0 Today, generations later, many of their descendants remain in the town.\u00a0 Here are two photos, from <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Victor Lukaniuk<\/span>, showing the Polish 2nd Corps, coming into Brandon, in 1946.\u00a0 You may make out the railway station, although it has changed much since the photo was taken.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any info, photos, anecdotes, or anything else, that relates to the Polish settlement in Brandon after the war?\u00a0 Brandon Heritage Centre is keen to create a display on this subject, so please <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandonheritage.org.uk\/contact-us-2\/\">contact us<\/a><\/strong> and let us know.\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Army disembark in Brandon, 1946 &#8230; Following the end of the Second World War there was a large settlement of Polish ex-servicemen into Brandon.\u00a0 They have since been credited&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,41],"tags":[197,233,234],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memories","category-share-discoveries","tag-lukaniuk","tag-poland","tag-polish","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandonheritage.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}