Places
36 places found.
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- Preston, Lancashire
- Preston, Yorkshire
- Preston Candover, Hampshire
- Long Preston, Yorkshire
- East Preston, Sussex
- Preston Plucknett, Somerset
- Preston-under-Scar, Yorkshire
- Preston, Dorset
- Preston Patrick Hall, Cumbria
- Preston, Wiltshire (near Ramsbury)
- Preston, Shropshire
- Preston, Sussex
- Preston, Leicestershire
- Preston, Hertfordshire
- Preston, Devon (near Newton Abbot)
- Preston, Kent (near Grove)
- Preston, Tyne and Wear
- Preston, Gloucestershire (near Ledbury)
- Preston, Gloucestershire (near Cirencester)
- Preston, Devon (near Paignton)
- Preston, Kent (near Faversham)
- Preston Bowyer, Somerset
- Preston Capes, Northamptonshire
- Preston, Borders
- Preston, Wiltshire (near Royal Wootton Bassett)
- Preston, Lothian (near Prestonpans)
- Preston, Lothian (near East Linton)
- Preston, Greater London
- Little Preston, Yorkshire
- Preston Bissett, Buckinghamshire
- Preston Fields, Warwickshire
- Preston Montford, Shropshire
- Great Preston, Yorkshire
- Little Preston, Kent
- Preston Crowmarsh, Oxfordshire
- Preston Gubbals, Shropshire
Photos
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Maps
250 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 25 to 2.
Memories
107 memories found. Showing results 11 to 20.
Robert William Shaw Family My Greatgrandfather
My GreatGrandParents Were Robert William Shaw and Eleanor (Wilkinson) Shaw. He worked as a Roller Coverer at a Cotton Factory, I do not know what the name of the factory was. I know my Grandmothers name ...Read more
A memory of Sabden in 1880 by
Days Gone By
I lived in Fleetwood from around 1948 - 1952. My dad was in the army and we lived in the Drill Hall in (Ithink) Preston Street. I can remember going to the library nearby and playing on the beach near some piers. There was a young ...Read more
A memory of Fleetwood by
Shopping After 1956
We moved to Loughton from Preston, Lancashire in Easter 1956, and during the summer holidays that year I got to know the town. On the left can be seen the Century Cinema, where I often went to films and which was demolished at ...Read more
A memory of Loughton in 1956 by
My Childhood In Burton In The 50's And 60's
I was born in the village in 1949, in an end terrace No.1 Woodview. It was down a small road in the centre of the village and at the top, I believe at one time there was a timber yard/sawmill. ...Read more
A memory of Burton in Lonsdale by
The War Years And Later
I lived in Annesley Woodhouse from 1936-1950, when I was conscripted into the R.A.F. for national service. I attended Kirkby Woodhouse School. The Owston's owned the post office, and the Chancellor's, ...Read more
A memory of Annesley Woodhouse in 1930 by
Cullercoats Personal Links
My Nana Simpson (nee Brunton) was a fisherwoman who used to sell fish on the front from a creel on her back years before I was born. My Grandad contracted Polio in his 50's and Nana had to work hard long hours to ...Read more
A memory of Cullercoats in 1949 by
My Ancestors Lived And Worked Here!
In the 1881 Census, Elizabeth Mitchell is listed as the head of the household and a widow aged 54 as her husband John Mitchell had died in February of that year and so running the Six Bells Beer House along ...Read more
A memory of Billingshurst in 1920 by
Dock Area Life
I was born at 13 Ellor Street, Hankey Park, in 1940 to Sarah and Charles Feeley (snr), the youngest of five siblings: Charlie (jnr) Eileen, Monica and Hannah. In 1941 my father left for the army, and we moved to 46 Brookland St off ...Read more
A memory of Salford in 1940 by
Sshooldays In Blackburn
I moved with my parents from Preston to Blackburn in 1946 We lived on Park Avenue off Shear Brow attended Four Lanes End CP School on Revidge Road where I was very happy My recollections of that school was a teacher called ...Read more
A memory of Blackburn
Park Lane Junction With Wembley High Road
Oh yes I can recall this photograph really well. I was born in Logan Road, just off Preston Road and my mother and family visited Wembley High Road to frequently. Just before I married in 1971 the site of ...Read more
A memory of Wembley by
Captions
123 captions found. Showing results 25 to 48.
Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.
Here we see Preston Post Office just a couple of years after it opened.
This is a close-up of the many and varied shops that graced Fishergate just a year after the first Preston Guild of the 20th century.
Preston Street links the station with the market town centre.
Preston was always a town that you had to pass through to go north to south, but as the popularity of Blackpool increased, so did the traffic east to west.
This beautiful hilly country, now owned by the Duke of Westminster, was part of Old Fylde when it stretched as far as Preston.
In the reign of Elizabeth I, Holker Hall was owned by the Prestons, from whom it passed to the Lowthers and finally to the Cavendish family.
Here we see the main road leading north from Preston and the Methodist Church.
Its popularity as a dormitory town near Preston to the north has brought heavy traffic.
Paignton's beaches and coves give a combined sea-frontage of over two miles; this led to the growth of the town's satellite villages of Preston and Goodrington.
The canal opened in 1817, and ran from Kendal to Lancaster, later continuing south to connect with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal via a tramway at Preston.
Bilsborrow lies between Lancaster and Preston on the traffic-laden A6 road.
There was a scheme to extend the tramway all the way to Preston via Freckleton.
this view looks up Preston Hill, with the Sandwich road to the right.
A police officer keeps a close eye on traffic at the foot of Preston Street, with the International Stores displaying its selection of groceries in its corner window, and the printers and stationer's shop
Longridge stands about six miles from Preston on the Clitheroe Road.
John Horrocks was a Preston success, and was always held up as a shining example of man's ingenuity.
Preston Hall is situated about half a mile south of Aylesford.
The west wing of the original old hall at Holker, home of the Preston family since the 16th century, was destroyed by fire in 1871.This sumptuous rebuilding, supervised by the seventh Duke of Devonshire
Peter Hesketh Fleetwood was then a Member of Parliament for Preston and attended these meetings.
Between 1820 and 1849, passenger boats on the canal were the main form of transport between Kendal and Preston, and the Packet Boat Hotel, seen here, was one of the inns built for passengers so that
Now Fire Headquarters, Hazel Mere was built in 1892 as a family home for Joseph Foster, a Preston machine maker.
Its opening in 1848 encouraged the development of the town and an expansion of the nearby quarries, whose fine stone was taken to build Liverpool Docks and the Harris Gallery at Preston.
A pony with a milk churn on a cart (centre) is turning onto Preston Street, by the shop of William Morris, fruiterer.
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