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Recent Posts
- Two more murals spotted 28th June 2024
- A walk in Preston – to the Tram Road Bridge 21st May 2024
- The Ribble Steam Railway – Saturday 24th March 2024
- A walk in Preston – Avenham way – April 2024
- A Walk in Preston 19th January 2024 Friargate area
- A walk in Preston 21st October 2023
- Avenham Park in June 2023
- Preston to Leyland and back by bus and train 11th May 2023
- A Walk in Preston 27th April 2023
- The Mayor of Preston Visits The Ribble Steam Railway 25th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre 21st March 2023
- A Walk in Preston Centre 10th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre and Beatrice Todd on International Women’s Day 8th March 2023
- Deepdale Retail Centre and Preston Football Ground walk – 11th February 2023
- Well known Preston historian dies
- Preston Centre walk 31st January 2023
- A few photos of Preston 9th January 2023
- Book Review: Types and Shadows – A history of Preston City Parish
- A few photos from a walk in Preston 1st November 2022
- Harris Museum and Art Gallery Jigsaw 2022
- Covid 19 data in Preston March 15th 2021
- British Commercial Vehicle Museum re-opens after Covid Closure
- Harris Your Place – Plan up for Review
- Work Starts on new Western Distributor Road
- The Harris Open Art Exhibition 2019
- Trains in Preston: A time of change December 2019
- Harris Art Gallery Exhibition – Beautiful and Brutal 50 years of Preston Bus Station
- A Walk from Preston Station
- Railway Improvements – New trains and electrification Northern Rail
- A visit to The Ribble Steam Railway and Museum
- Old Tram Road Bridge Closed
- Museum of the Moon at the Harris
- The Preston Open Art Exhibition at The Harris
- Wires to Bolton
- The Harris: The Renewal
- Harris 125th and Triple Exhibition
- North End low down
- Railway Anniversary Month and Strand Road closure
- Barton Grange turns on the entertainment with style
- Dear Harris
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Pizza makers in Leyland
Schwan the American Pizza maker in Leyland has sold out to the German Pizza maker Dr Oetker. Reading newspaper reports this gives Dr Oetker 43% of the UK frozen pizza market and this might be too much. Dr Oetker previously had 12% so … Continue reading
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Tithebarn v Talbot
Blackpool announced the go-ahead of its Talbot Gateway re-generation today costing almost £300m. A company called Muse (formerly Amec) are to build it starting next year. Unlike Prestons plan it has no flagship shop but includes hotels, cinema, supermarket, bus station … Continue reading
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Fylde visit
Tuesday 10th March a springlike, sunny day. Take a trip to Cleveleys – the new promenade looks good, people are sitting in the sun looking at the sea and there is clear visibility to the Lake District and the snow covered fells. … Continue reading
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PNE 7 days – 3 games – 1 point
Saturday 7th March – Crystal Palace 2 PNE 1. Tuesday 10th March – PNE 1 Sheff Wed 1. Not exactly promotion form. Neither opponent had been doing well. Add in Notts Forest last week and the story isn’t too great. … Continue reading
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Preston transport in the news
Cabbies fearing loss of business to late night buses. Cabbies able to pick up passengers at bus stops. Preston bus only weeks from being bust, Stagecoach saves jobs and pensions. Mayor says bus station underpass dangerous. It’s all happening on … Continue reading
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Planning for planners in the North West Region
After my note below on Preston Vision I was reading about the vision and the North West Development Agency when another group came into focus. They are 4NW. A cliche ridden name, can’t say I’d heard of it before. This … Continue reading
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Nottingham Forest 2 PNE 1
Tuesday 3rd March. Billy Davies strikes back, I’m a fan of his. The Lancashire Evening Post gave the impression PNE could have won, they’re still well placed.
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Preston – Leader of the Council Blog
Scouring the internet I came upon the Preston council website and the blog of the Leader of the Council, Ken Hudson. It looks fairly new and although it might be political to even mention the blog, it isn’t too overtly … Continue reading
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Carphone Warehouse
Carphone Warehouse are in the news in Preston. They have a large call centre in Tulketh Mill and although I’m not too up to speed on the Academy they have been involved in funding. They also announced plans to create … Continue reading
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PNE 4th at end of February
PNE are sitting in a great position after 35 games. Todays game against Ipswich was a ‘six pointer’ and Ipswich were on a run so the 3-2 win kept them in the play-off position. Only Sheffield United can move them … Continue reading
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House prices in Lancashire
Have house prices reached the bottom yet? There are a few sources of prices but the Land Registry is the only one that bases them on actual paid prices. The data from them is a bit slower than the Halifax and Nationwide … Continue reading
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Female Referees
BBC Radio 4 went to Leyland (north of Preston I’m sure she said) in their ‘Today’ current affairs programme at 8am this week. The Lancashire FA are training female referees and this was national news. The FA are looking for more female … Continue reading
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Preston Vision
Preston Vision, Tithebarn Project Continue reading
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UK a centre of excellence for European rail manufacturing
An interest in made in …. and trains got me to prick up my ears when Geoff Hoon announced this week he is going to make the UK a centre of excellence for European rail manufacturing. This sounds encouraging but on closer … Continue reading
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First of the Few
Watched a DVD – First of the Few – last night, a freeby from the Daily Mail. It’s a wartime propaganda film about the development of the Spitfire. A great story although the film has a few porkies. What has this got … Continue reading
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High Speed Rail
A bit of doubt has been sown about the proposed route for the new High Speed Rail line and how far it will go. Only the line to Rugby is being planned this year and then a plan will be … Continue reading
Fragile Heritage
Yesterday I went to a talk at Alston Hall by Stephen Sartin on the subject of Characters of Preston. It made me think about the fragility of our heritage. It’s easy to knock stuff down but it can never be put … Continue reading
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National Football Museum
Been some debate about moving the Football Museum to Wembley. Don’t see why. Wembley gets big crowds for the few games it holds but is miles out of the centre. I only see it when travelling at 100mph on a … Continue reading
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Lancashire
Writing the opening blog post set me thinking that there is another matter that can’t pass unsaid. In 1974 they re-organised local government so that the border of Lancashire changed and it became a lot smaller. Manchester and Merseyside took a third each and … Continue reading
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Preston city crest on buses
Last year there was a debate about whether the Preston city crest should be on the city bus fleet. With the takeover by Stagecoach this has been fulfilled without any controversial political decision. Stagecoach have been very fast at putting … Continue reading
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