Deepdale Retail Centre near the football ground and within reach of three motorway junctions. Easy to park, although it does get busy on the road outside, and we haven’t been at weekend.
M&S, Boots, Next, Game, JD, TUi, Craft Shop, Wilko, Poundland, Flannels, Sport Direct. Plus more, a kitchen place. Also a Curry’s next door.
Deepdale Retail Centre, Preston, February 2023
We saw the floodlights so after the shops and a coffee in M&S we took a walk along Blackpool Road, past St Gregory’s Church to the ground.
The brilliant statue, called Splash! based on a photograph, of Sir Tom Finney, Preston North End and England’s Flying Winger of the 1950’s stands outside the ground.
Just past Splash! is a mural celebrating Preston’s famous women footballers of the 1920’s. Based at Dick, Kerr, a Scottish Company who had a big engineering factory on Strand Road next to Preston Docks making trams, planes, trains, electric motors.
St Gregory’s Church on Blackpool Road near the football ground. Quite an imposing front.
