The National Lottery Heritage Fund has awarded £45,474 to Creativity Works Preston for a ‘reminiscence’ project known as ‘Musical Express’. The project will involve a core group of young people […]

The University of Central Lancashire has partnered with the Lancashire Archives to host an event that will look back at the 1922 Guild Pageant. The pageant was performed entirely by […]

The Romans had forts at Ribchester and Kirkham, with an East-West main road passing through Fulwood. Another road from Wigan to Lancaster passed along the edge of the modern city. There […]

The University of Central Lancashire is hosting several free community events throughout October for Black History Month. The public is invited to a range of events including film screenings, talks […]

A Preston man is telling historic stories in poetry form. Jake Jackson is the author of Murder and Mayhem in the Old Priest Town, which is available in the reference […]

Always popular on postcards was Preston Guild. There was a Preston Guild held at the beginning of the Edwardian era, in 1902. This postcard proudly shows the coat of arms […]

Electric light began to be used in the 1880s. As a result, the first power station opened in Preston in 1891 and by 1897 it had 450 customers. The central […]

Hand loom weavers dominated the Preston textile trade until the 1830s. However, by the 1840s, when power looms had largely taken over, hand loom weaving had become synonymous with the […]