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Information about things made in Preston and its surrounding area.
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Recent Posts
- A walk in Preston 21st October 2023
- Avenham Park in June 2023
- Preston to Leyland and back by bus and train 11th May 2023
- A Walk in Preston 27th April 2023
- The Mayor of Preston Visits The Ribble Steam Railway 25th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre 21st March 2023
- A Walk in Preston Centre 10th March 2023
- A walk in Preston Centre and Beatrice Todd on International Women’s Day 8th March 2023
- Deepdale Retail Centre and Preston Football Ground walk – 11th February 2023
- Well known Preston historian dies
- Preston Centre walk 31st January 2023
- A few photos of Preston 9th January 2023
- Book Review: Types and Shadows – A history of Preston City Parish
- A few photos from a walk in Preston 1st November 2022
- Harris Museum and Art Gallery Jigsaw 2022
- Covid 19 data in Preston March 15th 2021
- British Commercial Vehicle Museum re-opens after Covid Closure
- Harris Your Place – Plan up for Review
- Work Starts on new Western Distributor Road
- The Harris Open Art Exhibition 2019
- Trains in Preston: A time of change December 2019
- Harris Art Gallery Exhibition – Beautiful and Brutal 50 years of Preston Bus Station
- A Walk from Preston Station
- Railway Improvements – New trains and electrification Northern Rail
- A visit to The Ribble Steam Railway and Museum
- Old Tram Road Bridge Closed
- Museum of the Moon at the Harris
- The Preston Open Art Exhibition at The Harris
- Wires to Bolton
- The Harris: The Renewal
- Harris 125th and Triple Exhibition
- North End low down
- Railway Anniversary Month and Strand Road closure
- Barton Grange turns on the entertainment with style
- Dear Harris
- Tail winds at BAE Systems Lancashire
- Comics at the Harris
- Fair Do to Northern Rail?
- Ikea pull out, will NHS move in
- Iconic Art at the Harris
Archives
Monthly Archives: August 2009
What’s happening in your road
Took a weird phonecall today in a friends home in South Ribble. Some security company wanting to tell them ‘what’s happening in your road tomorrow’. Sounded interesting so I asked for more. Said they were visiting homes to advise about the … Continue reading
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High Speed Train through Preston announced
Hot on the tail of the Rail Electrification Plan comes an announcement yesterday that the first High Speed Rail link costing £34bn will be on the West Coast Main Line. No need to get too excited it won’t reach Glasgow till 2030ish so … Continue reading
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Rail Electrification Plan
The government has released its Electrication Plan with 2 routes given the go-ahead: Manchester to Liverpool and London to Swansea. This effects the north-west as it is planned to re-route Manchester to Scotland trains onto the new route although I’d … Continue reading
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Edinburgh Fringe Report
Shouldn’t be on this blog but a few August days in Edinburgh. Six shows, an art exhibition and a few bits and pieces. Our tale as it happened. Best of John Betjemen – St Cuthberts Church – It’s not advertised … Continue reading
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News and facts on the BBC
Off topic. According to the BBC website a new build UK house is just under a third of the size of an Australian or American house. Then in the small print it says the UK survey is based on asking owners of … Continue reading
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Brockholes Wildlife Reserve
Great news for the Lancashire Wildlife Trust that its application has been approved by Preston council ( I didn’t know it was in Preston) to build a Visitor and Education centre on the reserve by the River Ribble. I hadn’t previously … Continue reading
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Earnings of an MP
I was reading some of the fuss from Alan Duncans statement that MP’s are on rations. It isn’t clear if he’s speaking for himself or for MP’s in general. The economy is a mess and over 2 million are out … Continue reading
Day Trip to Blackpool – Rolling Stones and Vulcan
I wasn’t going to write but the worst TV programme I’ve ever seen was driving me crazy in the lounge, something about Jam and Jerusalem. Up till then it’s been a good day with full sun and we went to several … Continue reading
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Miller Park to centre link
It’s a long time since I walked from Miller Park into the centre but I noticed that it is proposed to make a cycle and pedestrian greenway linking Fishergate Shopping Centre with Avenham and Miller Parks. This includes replacing a missing bridge. … Continue reading
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Pre-season transfers hotting up
Alan Irvine bought Paul Parry from Cardiff and Veliche Shumulikoski from Ipswich in the last 2 days. Both players are 28. Parry is a winger, Shumulikoski a midfielder. Irvine had been saying the midfield must be strengthened so Shumulikoski fits … Continue reading
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Cost of Plastering
Got a quote from a plasterer to re-board a wall and the ceiling and to skim in our smallest room 18 square metres of plaster. £410. Sounds a lot although he was recommended by a decorator I know. I thought … Continue reading
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