When I visited Preston Railway Station to take this photograph it was eerily quiet. Normally there are taxis queuing, some slowly edging forward on their journey as the front of […]

Today is the day that the Guild Wheel officially opens and this is a picture for all those people taking part in this morning’s exciting celebration with a 21 mile […]

Last week my picture of the week was the Old Black Bull , one of Preston’s most distinctive pubs. This week I’m featuring another City centre pub with bags of […]

You may recall having seen an article on BlogPreston earlier this year relating to financial problems for the Old Black Bull’s parent company and the news that they’d had to […]

It’s sometimes easy to forget just how close you are to the countryside in Preston. Wherever you are in the city, it’s not too far to some great countryside. As […]

Last weekend was a ‘friendly engines’ weekend down at the Ribble Steam Railway museum in Preston. Now I’ve got to admit, I’ve never actually got around to visiting the museum […]

Last week my picture for this weekly blog spot featured the boat-lift crane on Preston Docks. Well I was there again this week but this time I was using the […]

When it was originally built Preston Dock became the largest dock in Europe. Quite an achievement when you consider that Preston is 11 miles inland and to enter you had […]