These images are all from 1949 and 1950, giving you a glimpse of what life in Preston looked like at the halfway point of last century.
I can’t get my head around some of these incredible historic pictures, so have a look and see if you recognise any familiar sights or faces...
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29. 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
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30. Junction of Walker Street, North Road, Park Road & Meadow Street, Preston c.1949 Park Lane Mill is seen at upper right. Centrally placed is North Road Wesleyan Chapel, now known as City Church. The building is currently for sale, listed at over at £700,000. Note the underground public toilets, with ironwork similar to those opposite the Miller Arcade in Church Street. British Pathe' have footage showing members of Preston Police Force performing traffic signalling drills. Click Here to watch. Filmed in 1935 It could almost be the inspiration for a Monty Python sketch. At the end of the film watch for a brief glimpse of a Preston Corporation tram passing this junction.
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31. Rev Ron May 21 - In 1949 a gallon of petrol cost just eleven pence in our money today, see pre-war advert, a promotional badge from an Esso Christmas party in 1951and a poster and on the fairground
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