Pictures show inside St Joseph’s Orphanage with urban explorer Lost Places & Forgotten Faces

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St Joseph’s Orphanage opened in Preston in 1872 on the site of a former almshouse. Its construction was funded by a £10,000 donation from a wealthy widow named Maria Holland. […]

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