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Harris Museum begins revamp as building work commences

In 2010 the Harris Museum & Art Gallery was successful in its bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a new history gallery for the 2012 Preston Guild – now work is ready to commence. The project, also supported by the Harris Trust and Friends of the Harris Museum, will create a new space filled with art works including the 12,000 year old [...]

585 days ago by Joseph Stashko

A roundup of Blog Preston’s best content from July

View “Best of Blog Preston’s content in July” on Storify

653 days ago by Joseph Stashko

Council’s ‘Social Media Toolkit’ debated on BBC Lancashire

If you’d read the post on Preston Council’s ‘Social Media Toolkit’ yesterday, you may have heard me popping up on BBC Lancashire‘s drivetime show to discuss the issue. Below I’ve attached some recorded audio of me talking about the Council’s strategy, as well as a response from Stephen Parkinson, Preston Council’s Head of Communications (who was very active in the comment threads yesterday). As always, [...]

655 days ago by Joseph Stashko

Council sells just 3 copies of ‘Social Media Toolkit’ in a month

Back in June, we reported the news that Preston City Council had launched a ‘Social Media Toolkit’, priced at £199. The 168-page document is available to order on the council website, and describes itself as “a complete guide to joining the social media revolution”, and will also be offered to district councils for the lower price of £99. Now a combination of an FOI request [...]

657 days ago by Joseph Stashko

Superfast Broadband comes to Lancashire

Superfast broadband could be making its way to Lancashire in the next few years, as the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) have put in a multi-million pound bid to bring the network to Lancashire. The organisation has submitted nearly £30m of bids into government and European money to help develop the next generation broadband. It has also applied for £13m from an initiative set up by [...]

660 days ago by Joseph Stashko

Average Preston property value falls by £6,000, according to online agent

Earlier in the year, we wrote about RightMovePlaces, a website produced by property agents Rightmove which allows residents to compare house prices, comment and rate different aspects of their local area. London-based online property agents Zoopla have come up with an interesting tool that allows you to check the value of housing in your local area in the form of a heat map. The map [...]