Sure, 1967 may be the year that gave us Pamela Anderson, Matt LeBlanc, and Will Ferrell, but it was also something of a bumper year for Preston as well.
Now some 57 years in the past, 1967 was about change, industry, and classic '60s sights and sounds in the North West, and so without further ado, here are some of our best archive pictures from that long-gone era.
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8. Whelley station in 1967 which had been out of use for a number of years. It was on the Preston to Manchester Lancashire Union Line and was occupied as a private dwelling by the Johnson family in the 1930s and 40s.
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