Preston Bus Station and the Guild Hall have been sold for £1 each. Preston’s prize buildings of the late 60’s, early 70’s will live on. Many buildings go through a phase of being fashionably attractive, then reminiscent of an unfortunate fashion, then become diamonds exhibiting all the style of an era. These sales will enable these buildings to perhaps reach that third age and become immortal and classic. Like the Harris and Miller buildings.
The new paving on Fishergate is an improvement as well as the changes to traffic movement. This is will be extended when Preston gets its share of the £234m the government has allocated to Lancashire.
The sale of the Guild Hall to a local businessman for £1 is said to imminently start £1m of improvements. Not before time. The Guild Hall isn’t the most attractive of buildings on the outside but inside it’s quite open and airy, in need of a lick of paint and cleaning. Let’s hope the Tourist Information Office remains, it’s quite a decent place, worth a look.