This category relates to all things to do with history in Preston.
Share your memories of post-war Preston Guild
Do you remember the 1952, 1972 or 1992 Preston Guild? If so a team of students from the University of Central Lancashire want to hear from you. The group, led […]
Photos of a Preston ambulance team in action and relaxing after work have been found. Donald Minchin discovered the pictures he’d taken as a teenager after clearing out cupboards at […]
Know your Tom Finney from your Strand Road? Have a go on our Preston History Map Quiz. It will ask you questions about the city and you have to click […]
Some local history for you, Mike Barton – who now lives in Bamber Bridge – tells us about growing up on Caroline Street, St Matthews and running a local business. […]
13 years ago
The history of the former St Joseph’s Orphanage has been a hot topic on Blog Preston for nearly two years since we conducted our first local history investigation into its […]
The Domesday Book has been published online for the first time, and you can check out what Preston was like all the way back in 1086. Open Domesday, set up […]
On Monday night, Canada went to the polls and gave us a perfect example of why the Canadian and British ‘first past the post’ (FPTP) voting system is broken, unfair […]
The Queen’s Lancashire Regimental Museum in Fulwood is due to open a new room, dedicated to the French Revolution. The Waterloo Room contains a rare Napoleonic Eagle and other memorabilia, […]