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 81 to 100.
Maps
250 maps found.
Books
2 books found. Showing results 97 to 2.
Memories
107 memories found. Showing results 41 to 50.
Laura Lavinia's Girls In The Selsey House
Ellen Laura (Ibbett, Clack, Hodgson) Preston, arrived from Canada and recorded: My sister Jessie and brother Lawrence met me for lunch in London and looked up my sister's train for Selsey, Sussex, with whom I ...Read more
A memory of Selsey by
Witnessing The Last Throes Of Strict Bathing Segregation Laws
The caption in the Francis Frith book 'Paignton', by Peggy Parnell (p.46), reads: 'With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, ...Read more
A memory of Paignton by
Preston Park In Wartime And After
I remember that the eastern part of the park was turned into allotments during the war. And a water-filled ditch was created for testing tanks' abilities to cross muddy/hilly terrain. And after the war there were ...Read more
A memory of Brighton by
Fantastic To See My First Home In It's Glory!
My parents owned the Hotel and I was introduced to it when I returned home from Bangor Hospital. I lived there for many years and can remember Kath's recollections of people 12 deep at the bar and ...Read more
A memory of Abersoch in 1961 by
Preston Capes School. 1958
At 5 years old I went on a school bus from Charwelton to Preston Capes school. It was 1 big classroom with coke fires and an outside toilet. Mrs Smith taught all the children of mixed ages. She had 2 blackboards, one ...Read more
A memory of Preston Capes
Preston, Fishergate C1965
We are sure that the policeman standing in his box doing point duty was our dad, PC Mcginty or number 100. He was a policeman for forty years with Preston borough and we and a lot of Preston people have fond memories of him standing in that spot.
A memory of Preston in 1965
Father Taught Here
From 1944 to 1956 my father Mr. G. Pember was head of the Electrical Engineering Department of the Technical School, which was also known as the Harris Institute. I can remember going there only once, at the time of the Preston ...Read more
A memory of Preston in 1944 by
Market Life
My parents had a baby Stall on Preston Market when I was 11 years old. Mum stood Mondays and Wednesdays, and we went as a family on Saturdays when we were on the Flag market (corner top left hand stall near the Harris Art Gallery). It ...Read more
A memory of Preston in 1963 by
Days Out In Lytham In The Forties And Fifties
We lived in Preston, Lancashire from 1944 to 1956 and often came here for the day on the bus. My mother preferred Lytham to Blackpool and we spent happy hours on the sands. This picture, taken before the ...Read more
A memory of Lytham by
Preston Candover Primary School
This was the year I left PC school to go to High School. I have immensely fond memories of school life here and the wonderful teachers, Mrs Cosier, Mrs Brady and Head Teacher Mrs Bruce. Lining up outside ...Read more
A memory of Preston Candover in 1951 by
Captions
123 captions found. Showing results 97 to 120.
It rises on the border with Yorkshire, and tumbles down the hillsides to meet up with the River Hodder and the River Calder to gather strength before pushing on to Preston and the coast.
Tubber Hill is on the outskirts of Barnoldswick; running alongside it is part of the Roman road which once went from Preston to York.
Preston was a County Borough until 1974.
In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style
In this High Street view there is a dairy, Preston's Library (where you could borrow a novel to enjoy whilst lounging in your deckchair), and a branch of International Stores, which quickly saw off old-style
The River Darwen (a Celtic name) is only 15 miles long before it joins the Ribble near Preston.
The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal’s civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.
This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church.
This unusual view of Preston Parish Church was taken from the back of the church.
With his powerful business aptitude, Mr Dendy quickly installed the most important tourist commodity, bathing machines; those for the ladies were on Paignton beach, and those for the gentlemen on Preston
Antiquity shows in the datestone (1660) of the Ram's Head, a coaching inn on the Ormskirk to Preston road.
The bridge was designed by William Cartwright, the canal's civil engineer, who was also an optician in Preston and an inventor of some note.
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.
Kippax and its neighbour Great Preston grew up around the coal mines of the district.
The railway to Preston opened in 1846, but the station we see here did not open until 12 September 1886.
The railway bridge here was built in 1838 by North Union Railways for the Preston to Wigan line at a cost of £70,000, and is now part of the west coast main line.
Laid up at Birkenhead in 1890, she was taken to Preston for breaking up in 1899.
Notice the stage-coach arch next to the bay windows: the stage coaches to Preston and Blackburn left from here.
This enabled the trust fund that had been established by Sir Thomas Preston for the secret support of Jesuit priests in the area to be used to build the first Catholic church in Ulverston.
The line was single-track and ran from Preston via Kirkham, Poulton and Thornton.
Freston is well known for the Freston Elizabethan tower overlooking the estuary, the Boot public house, and the parish church.
The building was established in 1270; just inside the doorway are stone carvings of the local squire and his wife, who endowed this lovely place of worship.
In fact, cobbles are circular and very rare, whereas there are stone sett streets in most northern towns.
At the heart of the village is the churchyard with its 99 yew trees; surrounding it are stone houses, shops and hotels, some steeply gabled and half-timbered, others Georgian with elegant facades.
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