The Mayor of Preston has unveiled a plaque commemorating the Peace Field Project, twinning a local sports centre with a Belgian WWI truce site. On Saturday, 9 July at 10am, […]

 Ribblesdale Place entrance to Avenham Park Pic: Google Part of Avenham and Miller Parks is being designated as a Centenary Field to honour the memories of soldiers who fought and […]

Preston Remembers is a partnership project that is joining together the activities, exhibitions and events that are happening from 2014 – 2018 in Preston to mark the centenary of the First World […]

Heather Crook, Editor of The Preston Magazine, would like the people of Preston, and in particular the Penwortham area, to know of a quest to find information of the men […]

There is no doubt about it that Prestonians know how to show their respect and appreciation when it matters. Today, Sunday 9 November, unprecedented crowds gathered together at the War […]

Showing for today only, 29 October 2014, at the Museum of Lancashire, there is a performance from The Northumberland Theatre Company of ‘Notes from the front’. This presentation is a one […]

In April 2008 Mrs Rita Finley, from Fulwood, wrote to the Lancashire Evening Post asking why there was no Memorial in Preston or in France to the memory of the […]

On Monday 4 August at 11am a reconstruction of the ‘Giving of the King’s Shilling’  took place using two platforms.  The ‘King’s Shilling’ is an old armed forces tradition dating back […]