They focus on industrial life, police training, streets, inside buildings and early aerial shots. They are a fascinating glimpse into how our city used to be.
9. Preston nostagia
A factory worker preparing the warp for the loom at Horrocks's, Crewdon & Co, Preston, 'the greatest cotton mills in the world'. May 1926 | Getty Images
10. Preston nostalgia
Preston, from the West around 1900. From Sights and Scenes in England and Wales. [Cassell and Company Ltd | Getty Images
11. Preston Nostalgia
Scrapyard workers use hammers and oxy-acetylene cutters to break up at the Royal Navy Abercrombie class monitor HMS Roberts and her two 14-inch (356 mm)/45 caliber twin gun turrets for scrap iron at the Thomas W Ward shipyard on 2 December 1936 in Preston, United Kingdom | Getty Images
12. Preston nostalgia
Goods Shed, West Lancashire Station, Fishergate Hill, Preston, Lancashire, 1927. Two vans parked outside the Cantrell and Cochrane depot | Getty Images