Plenty has changed about the city over the intervening seven decades or so and these brilliant scenes take a trip down memory lane to explore Preston as it once was.
32 retro pictures of Preston 51 years ago in 1973, from Bobby Charlton and schools to the India cricket team
1. Preston Bus Station During Construction 1969 Showing the south end of the construction site Photo by Norman Askew. Image courtesy of the Preston Historical Society. www.prestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/ © Preston Historical Society.
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3. Traffic control box at the junction of Lancaster Road and Church Street, Preston, March 8, 1969.
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4. Preston Railway Station. February 1966 4-6-0 No. 44892 arrives at Platform 5 with a train from the south.
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