They are from 1952 and 1953 and show the city just as it was in a long lost era.

13. 13th Preston St. Thomas Cub Scouts 1953 Entry for the National Soap Box Derby held at New Brighton in 1953. Image courtesy of Rev. Canon Ron Greenall
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14. The English Electric Company Ltd., Strand Road, Preston. A view inside the west works c.1953 at construction of railcars for Ceylon.
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15. Preston Guild 1952 Preston and District Model Engineering Society display.
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16. St Jude's C of E School, Preston 1952 Dorothy Flack (nee Simpson) is the teacher in this photograph. Kindly sent by her daughter Katrina Talbot. Image courtesy of the Preston Historical Society. www.prestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/
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