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| | Towards the end of the eighteenth century a Thomas Tomlinson settled in Preston, married a local woman, Ann 'Nancy' Holyday, and set up in business with a shop on Cheapside and a tannery in Frenchwood. What is of particular interest about Thomas is that he sired a family dynasty that stretched through the nineteenth century,...
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| | Recent posts about Preston Dock and its Dockers Labour Club on the Preston History FB page prompted the following response from Kevin Stevens: 'I measured Preston dockers club in the late 70's as a young architectural technician and still remember a white line painted on the floor about 10 feet from the bar with the...
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| | I had an email this morning from Daniel Crowther, the urban planner heading the Restoring Preston Basin project, pointing me to a telling sentence in the Historic Town Assessment Report for Preston published by Lancashire County Council back in 2006: '... in the last hundred or so years Preston has vandalised its inheritance.' It adds:...
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