And, in this case, it’s a very long a winding lane indeed, as today’s retro picture gallery takes us all the way back to 1950. A different time altogether, 1950 is now 73 years in the past, meaning that a five-year-old just starting to make memories of that time would now be almost 80. Check out our best archive images of that heady era.
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13. 1950 Preston people
Star footballer from Hindley, Jean Lane, front row, 3rd right, in the Preston Ladies Dick Kerrs FC team. Jean was a star striker for the worlds most successful women's football team signing for them in 1950 aged 14 and played for the club home and abroad for 15 years making 204 appearances and scoring 187 goals. She scored her first goal in a 4-2 win against Wythenshawe and soon afterwards scored a hat-trick in a 5-1 win against the touring French International Federation Club. Jean lived in Hindley all her life and after hanging up her boots she became a keen charity fundraiser and preacher at St. John's Church, Market Street, Hindley. Jean died aged 73 in March 2009. Photo: Frank Orrell
14. 1950 Preston people
Preston Railway Station about 1950 Four pals on their way to he Isle of Man for a weeks holiday.From the left Brian Holmes Ken Bretherton ------ Bretherton and Percy Harrison.Ken Bretherton eventually became a funeral director in Leyland for many years his premises were in Dunkirk Lane which are still there under his name but now owned by the Coop Sent by Brian Maley, Leyland Photo: n/a
15. 1950 Preston people
Labour Prime Minister Clement Attlee with the Mayor speaking in Preston, 1950 Image courtesy of John Swindells and the Preston Past and Present Facebook Group. Preston Digital Archive Photo: Preston Digital Archive
16. 1950 Preston people
Preston Dock, July 1950 Council Members and Officials about to depart for the annual inspection of the River and Estuary. The man standing at the entrace to the tug is Bill Taylor. Bill and his Father Hugh worked on the tugs all their life. Photo: PDA