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The Preston Digital Archive was created in 2008 with the initial aim of gathering together a total of 2,012 vintage images of Preston to celebrate the 2012 Preston Guild - an event that takes place every 20 years. When the 2012 Guild celebrations were brought to a close, a decision was made to continue to attract and display historical images of the town and to have the collection serve as a visual reference library, useful in supporting local history projects. We are grateful to the large number of individuals and institutions that have provided support, not least of which are the Lancashire Evening Post, the Preston Historical Society, the Harris Museum and Art Gallery and Lancashire Archives who have graciously allowed us to display selected images from their various collections.

The images on our photo stream are meant to be used for personal, educational or research purposes. Many of the images are of unknown provenance, with no accompanying data about their creators or date of creation. Every effort has been made to trace copyright holders and gain permission for use of these images. We would be grateful for any information concerning copyright and will withdraw images immediately on copyright holder’s request. Please do not download images from our collection and then re-post them on other social media sites such as FaceBook and Twitter (now called X). We are happy to support the various Facebook groups with PDA content but please post URL links instead of uploading our archive material directly to these external web sites.

This is strictly a non-commercial ad-free archive. We do not sell any of our images. Many of our donors have asked us to decline requests for rights of re-use, however, please check with us first if you would like to use archive images for special projects. Certain images may be available for purchase directly from either Red Rose Collections or The Lancashire Evening Post. Please check for links in the caption below the image to be directed to those donors own web sites.

One Flickr's most popular features is that it gives you the viewer the ability to leave comments below the image (you have to be a Flickr member to avail yourself of this function) We welcome all viewer comments and corrections. The collection is best viewed on a desktop or laptop. This will allow you to see comments and related images in the caption information.

Takedown Policy - If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material in our archive for which you have not given permission, we will of course remove it. Please contact us at prestondigitalarchive@hotmail.com with the following:

1. Your contact details.

2. The full details of the material

3. The exact URL where you found the material (i.e.www.flickr.com/photos/rpsmithbarney/16170456032/)

4. Proof that you are the rights holder or an authorized representative of the rights holder.

How to donate material to the archive - We welcome any submissions of content from viewers. If you have Preston related photographs or ephemera please send an email to us at: prestondigitalarchive@hotmail.com Also check out the Preston 1800-1990 Flickr group. This contains all the images from the PDA together with many more from other Flickr members. You may also be interested in our companion site at the Preston Film Archive. This is where we host our historical moving image content such as films and video's.

Special thanks to:

Lancashire County Library / Red Rose Collections

Preston City Council

Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

South Ribble Borough Council www.southribble.gov.uk/

University of Central Lancashire www.uclan.ac.uk/

The Ribble Steam Railway www.ribblesteam.org.uk/

The Lancashire Records Office (Preston) www.lancashire.gov.uk/archives/

The United States Library of Congress www.loc.gov/index.html

Preston Historical Society www.prestonhistoricalsociety.org.uk/

The Red Rose Postcard Club (Preston) www.redrosepostcardclub.co.uk/

Preston Grammar School Association www.pgsassociation.org.uk/

The Martins Bank Archive www.martinsbank.co.uk

BT Digital Archives www.digitalarchives.bt.com

Preston Grasshoppers Rugby Club www.pgrfc.co.uk/

Thanks also to the following individuals and Flickr Members for the use of their own images and collections:

The late Heather Crook

The late Tony Worrall

JohnnyEnglish (David)

Bernie Blackburn

The late Paul Swarbrick

George D. Thompson (Derek)

The late Peter Vickers

Derek Stevens

Robert Gregson (author)

Keith Johnson (author)

Janet Rigby (author)

Harry Walmsley (Meanderman on Flickr)

The late Jim Danby

Paul Grogan

Norman Worthington (Normanthebus)

Chaotic River (Keith)

Derek Carwin

Ian Rigby

David Eaves

Terry and Nicola Martin

Bruce Grime

Kate Yates, Archivist, B.A.E. Systems Heritage, Warton.

Other sites of interest: (Please report any dead links)

Preston Historical Society Flickr Collection Here

Paul Swarbrick at Blog Preston Here

Ashton-on-Ribble Community web site Here

Pete's 'Made in Preston' site Here

Rob O' Gara's Preston web site Here

Emma Heslewood's Blog Here

The Preston Pals Memorial appeal Here

Steve Halliwell's Pubs in Preston blog Here

Prestons old Cinema's site Here

Preston Station Past & Present www.prestonstation.org.uk/

Whittingham Asylum Here

The Longridge Archive townarchive.longridgestation.co.uk/

Historical maps and aerial photographs of Preston from MARIO at lancashire.gov.uk Here

Tony Worrall's Ultimate Preston Trivia collection Here

Follow the Yarn - The Story of Cotton in Preston Here

Dick Kerr Ladies Football Team Here

Preston Guild Collectables by Kate Phimster Here

History of Winckley Square Here

PNE Former Players Association Here

Preston during WW1 blog by David Huggonson Here

A list of all past Mayor's of Preston Here

Online publications featuring Preston: (Please report any dead links)

Memorial of Preston Guilds up to 1862 (Abram 1882) Here

The history of Wesleyan Methodism in Preston (Pilkington 1890) Here

Historical Account of the Borough of Preston (Tulket 1821) Here

History of the Borough of Preston and its Environs (Hardwick 1857) Here

A History of Preston in Amounderness (Clemesha 1912) Here

The History of the Parish of Preston in Amounderness (Fishwick 1900) Here

Preston Court Leet Records (Hewitson 1905) archive.org/details/prestoncourtlee00hewigoog

A Handbook and Guide to Preston (Pollard 1882) Here

Preston Fight 1715 (Ainsworth 1875) Here

War History of Loyal North Lancashire Regiment 1914-1918 (1921) Here

Our Churches and Chapels (Hewitson 1869) Here

Sixty-Four Years a Doctor (Charles Brown 1922) archive.org/details/sixtyfouryearsdo00brow

Preston: A Handbook to the 39th annual Co-operative Congress 1907 Here

History of Preston from AD 705 - 1883 (Hewitson 1883) Here

Brown's Directory of Preston (1860) Here

Transcripts of Preston Court Leet Records 1653 - 1813 Here