While many older commercial buildings stand on original medieval building plots in the centre of Preston, the Victorians added the Covered Market, Market Street, Miller Arcade, and Orchard Street. The name of the street came from what stood close by – Chadwick’s Orchard. Nowadays it is a bustling street scene with shoppers moving up it towards the Covered Market and down to Friargate and St George’s Shopping Centre. In these images you can see how the area developed over the years – from the 1930s all the way to to the end of the 00s.
14. Orchard Street
Although this picture was taken in 2009 it is a sight that will be familiar to most people nowadays - it's Greggs on the corner of Orchard Street and Market Street Photo: Kevin McGuinness
15. Orchard Street
Once home to the imposing Farmers Arms pub and later the Jolly Farmer, in 1989 it was a butchers shop - Coopers - that occupied this site on the corner of Orchard Street and Market Street. Image kindly provided by Paul Swarbrick and Gillian Lawson of the Preston Historical Society Photo: Preston Digital Archive
16. Orchard Street
Steve and Sue Jones outside their cheese shop in Orchard Street, Preston, back in 2007 Photo: Neil Cross