Some 74 years in the past at this point, it's safe to say that 1950 Preston was a different world entirely, as evidenced by the fact that the majority of our retro archive pictures from that heady era are based around industry, ships, and labourers. And so, to get a glimpse of what life in the city would have looked like back then, take a look at some of our best images from back in the day...
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1. Looking Back This picture was sent in by Bob Scanlan (Scanny) Higginson St Football lads Scene was in Higginson street,Preston in 1950 football lads. Bob Scanlan,Jimmy Lee,Jackie Norris,Ronnie Townson,Tommy Dorbigan.
2. Loxhams Garage, Preston. May 27, 1950. This 51 year old Wolseley car, a single-cylinder 3 1/2-h.p. is being driven from John O' Groats to Lands End by Mr. St. John C. Nixon of Surrey. The car took part in the 1,000 mile trial in 1900 when Mr. Nixon was one of the competitors. Mr. J.A. Wood, Managing Director of Loxham's Morriservices is seen greeting the car and driver. One year earlier, St.John C. Nixon wrote the book Wolseley, A Saga of the Motor Industry
3. Nellie Oakey taken outside Preston Central Post Office on the 26th July 1950. She was born in 1892 in Witney, Oxfordshire and moved to Preston after the second world war to Holme Slack Lane. She would have been aged 58 at the time of the photograph and died peacefully in 1981 aged 88. sent in by grandson Peter Wilkinson, Penwortham
4. The English Electric Co. Ltd., Preston c.1950 The English Electric Company Ltd of Preston ran a number of these Oldham built Seddon Diesel four wheeler flats throughout the 1950s and early 1960s. Photograph courtesy of Mike Sumner (jnr).
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