Preston, New Road 1924
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More about this scene
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. Liverpool and Manchester both sent traffic over the Ribble bridges and into the dock area to join roads that were full already. After the First World War, it was decided to build a relief road north of the town: that is what we can see here, just after its completion. Our view shows an almost empty Blackpool Road in the Deepdale area of Preston, Moor Park is on the right. Oh! the hours I have sat in traffic jams on this road in the 1970s and 1980s! To see it new and empty fills me with nostalgia.
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