Plenty has changed about the city over the intervening seven decades or so, but you can still take a trip down memory lane to explore Preston as it once was.
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1. Traffic control box at the junction of Lancaster Road and Church Street, Preston, March 8, 1969.
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2. Preston Railway Station. February 1966 4-6-0 No. 44892 arrives at Platform 5 with a train from the south.
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