It is more than 300 years since the sound of musket shots rang out through the streets of Preston. Known as the last battle on English soil the Battle of […]

Fulwood Barracks engraving. The Main Entrance 1857 Fulwood Barracks in Preston was built upon a part of the site of the old race course over which the ancient Watling-street passed and was […]

The Preston men who gave their lives in the First World War are to be remembered during Remembrance weekend. A free event at Preston Cemetery is to see a guided […]

A Preston pub has begun researching its history after a revamp. The Plungington Hotel at the junction of Lytham Road and Plungington Road is asking regulars for any pictures they […]

Heritage campaigners have called on architects to re-think their proposals for the new cinema and restaurants complex on Preston Markets. Twentieth Century Society have written to planning officers to table […]

A Preston man has received the highest French honour for his bravery during the D-Day landings. Robert Hornby Barron, known to his friends as Bob, was awarded the Legion d’Honneur […]

Owners of a building facing Winckley Square have been ordered to repair it. Grade II listed College House is seeing urgent work done to it after Preston City Council ordered […]

Historic bricks from Toppings Brickwork have been laid in the Fishwick Nature Reserve. A picture slideshow records the work done by the Friends of Fishwick and St Matthews to reclaim […]