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The Polish Catholic Church in Victoria Street was originally a Methodist Chapel built in 1862. The Methodists had been meeting from 1852 in a small chapel in Mount Street, at the corner of the lane leading from Edward Street to Princes Street. Earlier they had met in the bar of a disused pub, the Rising Sun, in Edward Street. The local Polish community, including many former Polish soldiers who had been unable to return to their homeland after the war, raised the money buy the chapel, then disused, and reopened in the building in 1968 as Our Lady of Czestochowa Catholic Church. |