And so, to take a peak at what things looked like back in the day in the 1950s, take a look at some of our best archive pictures of Preston some 70 years ago.
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9. Preston Dock, July 1950 Council Members and Officials about to depart for the annual inspection of the River and Estuary. The man standing at the entrace to the tug is Bill Taylor. Bill and his Father Hugh worked on the tugs all their life.
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10. Church Street & Tithebarn Street, Preston 1950 Gooby's haberdashers on the left, with Meeson's, cut price confectioners on the opposite corner. Gooby's was destroyed by fire in May 1965.
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11. Star footballer from Hindley, Jean Lane, front row, 3rd right, in the Preston Ladies Dick Kerrs FC team. Jean was a star striker for the worlds most successful women's football team signing for them in 1950 aged 14 and played for the club home and abroad for 15 years making 204 appearances and scoring 187 goals. She scored her first goal in a 4-2 win against Wythenshawe and soon afterwards scored a hat-trick in a 5-1 win against the touring French International Federation Club. Jean lived in Hindley all her life and after hanging up her boots she became a keen charity fundraiser and preacher at St. John's Church, Market Street, Hindley. Jean died aged 73 in March 2009.
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12. Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee with the Mayor speaking in Preston, 1950 Image courtesy of John Swindells and the Preston Past and Present Facebook Group. Preston Digital Archive
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