Preston’s history fanatics are being urged to submit their ideas for a special Guild game. The Guild Key will be a treasure hunt involving challenging and puzzling Preston-related questions. It […]

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 […]

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 […]

It’s difficult even with help of study and older relatives to imagine the days when Britain was a leader in domestic manufacturing. Factories, mines, and shipping have largely been superseded […]

Ahead of the 2012 Preston Guild, the Harris Museum is asking what makes Preston’s history special for a new exhibition.

Down Theatre Street in Preston (near the Post Office) is the former St Joseph’s Orphanage or Mount Street Hospital as it became know.

Photos and videos posted on the web have revealed what Preston’s old working docks were like in their heyday.

It’s easy to dislike the statue in front of the corn exchange (what is now The Assembly pub). The sculpture uses a lumpen style which provokes people to like or […]