From the first Boeing 747 commercial flight to London and The Beatles breaking up to the Apollo 13 space mission, 1970 was certainly a big year for global events. Take a look at some of our best pictures of what life in Preston looked like back in that momentous year.
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21. Preston Digital Archive Follow Moor Park Avenue, Preston 1970 Photograph by the late Norman Harrison (1926 - 1999) courtesy of Paul Harrison from the Preston Past and Present Facebook Group.
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23. Marks and Spencers, Fishergate, Preston 1970 Also seen are the premises of Manfield and Sons, shoe shop, opened in 1929. Copyright Lancashire County Library and Information Service. www.lantern.lancashire.gov.uk/
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24. Preston Marine and Sea Cadet Regatta, River Ribble c.1970 Colour Sergeant Jim Bland is seen on a makeshift raft in the River Ribble. A rope was stretched between the Sea Cadets hut and the opposing riverbank in order to display various methods of crossing a river. Sometime later that day, as part of the Marine Cadet sniper display, an old tailors dummy was shot at and subsequently dropped into the river from high up in the coal conveyor that supplied Penwortham Power Station. It was quite a dramatic finale to the days proceedings. A few days later the dummy washed up on a mudbank near Freckleton and became the subject of a frantic recovery attempt by police and rescue services who clearly thought they were dealing with a suicide victim, until they rolled the 'body' over to reveal the words "property of Marks and Spencers" etched about the belly button area!
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