What’s also incredible is that these pictures all depict a Preston and a UK before a time when we could crow about our national football team having won a World Cup...
These pictures will have you saying: “I can’t believe it...”
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22. Workmen hoist up a section of the new dome on to the roof of Moor Park observatory, in Preston, in February 1964
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23. December 1964 A twenties sextet from the Hutton and Howick Women's Institute presentation of "From Social Half Hour to Social Time" at the Lancashire Federation of Women's Institutes music and drama festival at Preston Playhouse. From left, Mesdames L. Prescott, B. Rice, H. Sotheran, B. Moore, M. Fazackerley and M. Ward
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24. After 33 years as a teacher, Mr Charles Davies has one ambition for his retirement - to have the chance to do nothing. Mr Davies, 57, has been the headteacher at Holme Slack County Primary, Preston, for 19 years and previously served as deputy head at Larches Primary School from 1964 to 1970 and as a teacher at Greenlands Primary from 1956. He is pictured (centre) celebrating with colleagues
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