My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

A Victorian Post Box on Market Street in Preston How many times have I walked past that and not realised that it was different to any of the other ones that I had seen locally? A Victorian Post Box on Market Street in Preston The plaque is inscribed; THIS VICTORIAN LETTER BOX WAS PRESENTED TO THE 1992 GUILD MAYOR ELECT COUNCILLOR MR HAROLD PARKER BY MR ALUN ROBERTS, DISTRICT HEAD POSTMASTER ON TUESDAY 31ST DECEMBER 1991 TO CELEBRATE PRESTON GUILD YEAR 1992 A Victorian Post Box on Market Street, presented to the 1992 Guild Mayor by Royal Mail I had known that Post boxes had Royal Cyphers on them, but just presumed that they had all been replaced over time for ones with ER on them. I hadn't really thought about the ones that may have survived from previous monarchs' reigns. Royal Cyphers that feature on Post boxes I hadn't found the one in Preston in 'real life', I had to resort to the Interweb to find it. The first time that I realised that there might still be some ...

Some Old Gates that appear to have survived the War Gates Manufactured by W. Dryden of Preston I spotted these on Church Street in Preston on Sunday 1st December 2024.  I can't say that I have noticed them before.  I probably thought that they were just a fence.  They would have once acted as an entrance into the former Unitarian Chapel on Percy Street (perhaps formally on Church Street), and its Burial Ground. The Former Unitarian Chapel on an Old Ordnance Survey Map The map can be found on the National Library of Scotland website.  I have included it courtesy of them.  Many old maps can be viewed on the website.  This view shows the  Ordnance Survey   map from the mid nineteenth century that I  have used compared to a relatively modern satellite image.  It is geo-referenced, which mean the features on the map can be matched up and traced side by side with the satellite image. NLoS:    https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-...