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
470 photos found. Showing results 61 to 80.
Maps
250 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 73 to 2.
Memories
107 memories found. Showing results 31 to 40.
Eccles Family History
My great-grandfather, Joseph Eccles, built Bilsborrow Hall. He owned a number of cotton mills in Preston and played cricket for Lancashire. I have just started to look into our family history and will hopefully be able to ...Read more
A memory of Bilsborrow by
Preston Market
It was a great market gaff to stand on, what a buzz. I had the time of my life there. The majority of the stallholders were legend and the locals were spot on. Times were good then and so were markets, unfortunately times and business ...Read more
A memory of Preston in 1994 by
Dunston Board School
I am looking for anybody who went to the Dunston Board school in the 1930s. I want to trace friends of my father, namely Henry Preston Westwick who was born in 1923, or anybody who worked in the soap factory in 1935.
A memory of Dunston in 1930 by
Palmer Family Of Preston Bagot
My great-great-great grandfather was Joseph Palmer, blacksmith, and his daughter Jane Plamer married James Ferris Cooke in 1838. They lived most of thier lives in Tanworth in Arden. Does anyone out there have any information about the Plamer family please? My email is anniebrown5@hotmail.co.uk
A memory of Preston Bagot by
Elms Lane School
The war was nearly over but I remember the Shelters along Maybank Ave. We'd dare each other into them on our way to Elms Lane school. Along the avenue and across the Harrow Road using the crossing by the Express Dairy shop, along Elms ...Read more
A memory of Wembley in 1944 by
Information About This Church
* St Walburge's is the tallest spired parish church and the third tallest church spire of any type in Britain. * Preston was made a City for the millennium celebrations so it is likely that St Walburge's will be elevated to cathedral status in time. * Completed in 1854.
A memory of Preston by
Docks Memory
Unfortunately, though this photo shows the timber quay, it doesn't show the timber! Sometimes Father took my brother and me to Preston docks, and this was always a wonderful outing. I can remember scrambling around on the huge tree trunks ...Read more
A memory of Preston in 1950 by
Preston Road Shops
My great Grandfather, George frederick Rogers ( c1880 ) owned the Newsagents ( still named Rogers ) on the Preston Road at Preston road station, way back in the 1920's ?. Before the parade of shops where built he had a wooden ...Read more
A memory of North Harrow by
My Childhood In West Norwood
So many wonderful memories of my life in West norwood. I went to st Luke's infant school. We had to go to the church hall for our lunch, no happy memories about the food. I hated it! We first lived in Hannah road above ...Read more
A memory of West Norwood by
St Michael's Church
I remember Father McNeice, Father Randall and Father Preston as vicars at St Michael's church in Aveley. My Mother Mary Archer was the church clerk at St Michael's for many years from the 50s. She also did some cleaning there, was a ...Read more
A memory of Aveley
Captions
123 captions found. Showing results 73 to 96.
At that time, around 1860, it was considered bad for your health to attempt the whole journey without an overnight stop half-way, which happened to be at Preston.
Preston was the centre of a wheel of railway transport: spokes went off to Blackpool, Lancaster, Blackburn, Manchester, London, Liverpool and Southport.As we can see, the river was used for pleasure
Preston's War Memorial to those who gave their lives in the Great War had just been erected at this time.
It was designed by the grandson of Sir Gilbert Scott, who had designed Preston Town Hall.
It is now the only footbridge over the River Ribble here, and a great asset to the parks and recreation facilities of Preston.
'Proud Preston' was part of the Old Fylde, and its main thoroughfare was Fishergate.
The addition of 'under-Scar' came in the 16th century to distinguish the village from other Prestons.
Preston's War Memorial to those who gave their lives in the Great War had just been erected at this time.
Preston cheese factors favoured the Fylde for their milk, and set up a cheese factory in Inskip to which farmers from all over the Fylde brought supplies.
This fine stone bridge spans the Preston to Tewitfield Canal; alongside runs part of the A6 road.
She had either just been, or was about to be sold to Nathaniel Miller for his Preston-Dublin service.
The Preston by-pass opened in 1959, and the motorway from junction 32 near Broughton to junction 33 at Hampson Green opened six years later.
Before 1892, all ships delivering to Preston would use the riverside for loading and unloading.
Preston was the centre of a wheel of railway transport: spokes went off to Blackpool, Lancaster, Blackburn, Manchester, London, Liverpool and Southport.
A bus to Pedders Lane and Ashton-on-Ribble plies down Fishergate, but so busy has Preston become, that drastic alterations in regulating traffic have had to be made.
Croston lies on the banks of the River Yarrow, 10 miles from Preston.
Between Preston and Clitheroe lies Hurst Green in the Ribble Valley, backed by Longridge fells.
Speaking at Preston Cockpit, he inadvertently invented the word 'teetotal'—Dicky stammered!
In 1770 there were 5,000 people living in the town, and by 1811 there were 15,083, three times that number; by 1835 the population had doubled again.The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the
though, as there are many locals who would rather it were back across the border.Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the Roman road which once went from Preston
This area was once part of a quiet seaside village, but by 1960 a parade of shops close to Bay Horse level crossing on the original Preston and Wyre Railway had appeared, and regular motor buses traversed
Run from Preston, it started business in 1930.
No 17, seen here in St Sepulchre Gate, was delivered in 1903 and was built by the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works, Preston.
balconies, it is modelled on the bell-tower of St Marks Square in Venice, and it took fourteen years to build.The River Darwen (a Celtic name) is only 15 miles long before it joins the Ribble near Preston
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