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Preston Guild Hall

The Guild Hall was the city’s premiere entertainment venue and was built in the early 1970s. It was sold off to the late businessman Simon Rigby and then went bust, falling back into council ownership in 2019. It remains mothballed as a venue.

The Guild Lounge work reaching final stages as part of Preston Guild Hall venue prepares to re-open

New branding is being fitted as part of the work in The Guild Lounge Pic: Preston City Council Work is nearly finished to bring part of The Guild Hall back into use as a venue. The RAAC-ridden building has been mothballed for half-a-decade but live entertainment is being […]

6 months ago
Santa’s Christmas Cracker show coming to The Guild Lounge

A Santa show is coming to The Guild Lounge in the run up to Christmas. The venue, inside the foyer of The Guild Hall, is playing host to Santa’s Christmas […]

6 months ago
Zero timescale for Preston Guild Hall to be open because problems are unknown

Preston Guild Hall, standing in Lancaster Road, has not seen a live music event since 2019 Pic: Blog Preston It is impossible to estimate when Preston’s Guild Hall will be fully operational again – because the extent of the structural problems facing the venue is still unknown. That was […]

7 months ago
Preston Guild Hall’s foyer venue The Guild Lounge confirms first shows

Looking up at the foyer of the Guild Hall venue Pic: Blog Preston The re-opening of Preston’s Guild Hall foyer as a venue is to kick in from Thursday 3 October. 15 events including tribute acts, Gareth Gates and burlesque shows are confirmed […]

7 months ago
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Preston Guild Hall foyer venue The Guild Lounge opening

The exterior of Preston Guild Hall in Lancaster Road - the foyer area, to be known as The Guild Lounge - is on the first floor Pic: Blog Preston Preston Guild Hall is to see its first live events for more than half-a-decade from early October. Proposals to re-open the foyer area as a make-shift venue branded as The […]

8 months ago
Yousuf Bhailok claims he tried to buy Preston Guild Hall for £1m

Looking up at the foyer of the Guild Hall venue Pic: Blog Preston One of Preston’s richest businesspeople claims he was shunned when it came to the future of the Guild Hall. Yousuf Bhailok, who stood in the recent general election, has revealed […]

9 months ago
Revealed: The cost of Preston Guild Hall standing empty and the path to re-opening

The Guild Hall has not seen live events since the early part of 2019 Pic: Blog Preston Preston Guild Hall has cost the city council nearly £4million since they took back control in 2019. And those costs spiralled recently with rising energy, construction, legal and maintenance costs […]

9 months ago
Opinion: Focus on ‘run down’ Preston continues to baffle me

Avenham Park “…in a dire state, with numerous boarded up shops and a general sense of neglect”. So concluded a member of the public speaking to candidates to become the next MP […]

9 months ago
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