To be given a glimpse of how your home city used to look almost 75 years ago is a pretty rare thing. So, with that in mind, take a look through some of our best archive retro pics of Preston all the way back in 1950 for a taste of what the place used to look like.
25. Nellie Oakey taken outside Preston Central Post Office on the 26th July 1950. She was born in 1892 in Witney, Oxfordshire and moved to Preston after the second world war to Holme Slack Lane. She would have been aged 58 at the time of the photograph and died peacefully in 1981 aged 88. sent in by grandson Peter Wilkinson, Penwortham
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26. New Hall Lane at Night, Preston c.1950 Image courtesy of Norman Worthington.
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27. Today we pay a visit to Cross Street, Preston, in 1950. Picture courtesy of C Charnley, Kate Yates, archivist, BAE Systems Heritage Image Collection, Preston Past and Present Facebook Group and Preston Digital Archive. Please send your nostalgic images and memories to the address below.
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28. 1950 Fulwood Barracks a day of in Preston L/Cpl Frank May on the left hails from Plymouth,he served in the army for 7 years and on demob he decided to stay in Preston and took a job at Berrys Slipper Works as Frank civilian trade was a cobbler.He met his wife to be at Berrys local girl from Pole Street Muriel Platt.They married in 1956 had 3 children and Frank died Christmas Day 1984.Muriel sister Dorothy is my wife. Sent by Brian Maley Leyland 01772 433482
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