Famed for cultural highlights, music, film, and fashion, the late ‘60s were a different world altogether, so take a glimpse of what Preston was like back in those days through our gallery of archive pictures from that era.
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25. 1968 Preston
Fishergate, Preston February 16, 1968 Removal of a bus shelter prior to bridge repairs. Photo: PDA
26. 1968 Preston
Ray Catterall outside the old east division police station entrance Stanley Street, Preston then situated at the front of the HM prison, Preston, in August 1968 Sent in by reader John Siddall, of Fulwood Photo: n/a
27. 1968 Preston
Preston Railway Station 1968. No. 70013 ready to depart for Liverpool with the last leg of a railtour. April 20, 1968. Photograph courtesy and copyright of Geoff Coward © Photo: PDA