Made in Preston and the surrounding area

www.madeinpreston.co.uk - website established 2002

Read about Preston and its surrounding area on this website. Things to do, things to see and things to note:

Preston, Lancashire

Granted city status in 2002 and home to UCLan, The University of Central Lancashire. At its heart is the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library, a Grade I listed building containing wonderful collections and the Discover Preston Gallery.

Preston contains the administrative centre of Lancashire, at County Hall next to the railway station, and has done since County Councils were formed in 1888, although Lancashire included the great cities of Manchester and Liverpool at that time.

Preston's fortune is built on the cotton industry which supported a large engineering and building industry. Diversity was achieved by developing a port, now partly a marina, along with a large aircraft and tram/electric motor factory and printing press factory. In Leyland, 5 miles away, a huge truck and bus plant supported tyre and paint factories. Of these the aircraft factories are now located outside Preston and Leyland Trucks is part of DAF.

The surrounding area also has several Lancashire Cheese producers.

Preston's businesses are celebrated every 20 years by the famous Preston Guild celebration, which has taken place since 1179.

Preston has a fortunate position with attractive countryside close by and the seaside to the west. It's also on the main road and rail routes to Scotland, The Lake District, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and London as well as direct trains to Leeds, York and Blackpool.

Due to the Pandemic visits to the main spots in Preston and everywhere have been severely limited in 2020. So there isn't much new unfortunately.

The Harris

The Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library is a Grade 1 listed building containing magnificent collections.

Visit our reports on our Harris webpage

Made in Preston - The Blog - occasional ramblings about Preston

The North Westerly Blog - infrequent ramblings about things in the North West and places.

Due to the Pandemic visits to the main spots in Preston and everywhere have been severely limited in 2020. So there isn't much new unfortunately.

Covid-19 Preston

Following Lancashire moving to Tier 4 at 00.01am Thursday 31st December 2020 the whole of .

England moves to 'Stay Home' Lockdown 4th January 2021.

Covid-19 around Preston page

Local COVID alert level: Stay Home

In late February Preston as a whole had a relatively high level of Covid-19 cases in comparison with the rest of England. Being the 9th worst by rate of cases per 100,000 people on 26th February 2021, which is the date of the map below from the UK Government website. More info on the link above.

Preston's Main Scenes

Fishergate August 2018

Fishergate looking well with its trees and the restricted vehicle access. Preston's main shopping street with the Fishergate Centre and station at one end and the ornate Miller Arcade and the excellent Harris at the other. The charms of Georgian Winckley Street and Square to the south and St George's Centre to the north.

Friargate May 2019

The new Engineering Block at UCLan, Preston, May 2019

Avenham Park riverside walk September 2018

The newest pages: The blogs are updated every few weeks.

Monthly PNE status since 2005, click here.

www.madeinpreston.co.uk - website since 2002.

Disclaimer and Acknowledgements

We also have Facebook, Twitter and Flickr accounts. . We're not to be associated with anything else calling itself Made in Preston. This is 2002 vintage.

If only there was time to do all planned for this website. But we plod on multi-tasking with other websites and social media by the same author. Hope you like it.