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The Derby Arms at Inskip - Motoring Pub Museum

The Derby Arms at Inskip - Motoring Pub Museum  I stumbled across this one when looking for YouTube videos on the subject (topic) of Preston.  I knew the Derby Arms as a pub, but I didn't realise it had been this ' Motoring Museum ' novelty pub.   Motoring Pub Museum (1967) - From British Pathé Filmed at the Derby Arms at Inskip, near Preston, Lancashire. ~ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m77k03VznDA ~ The Motoring Bar, Derby Arms, Inskip Lancashire Real Photo Postcard Video Transcript [You] wouldn't expect an AA minivan to take on a rescue operation at any of these exotic Rendezvous nor would you get yourself into a position like this getting there. This is nothing to do with modern motoring we're back in the early days again just look at this lot quite rightly you're not supposed to drink and drive, but here's a very special place where they sometimes give the green light provided no one overdoes it. They're nipping into the Derby Arm...

The Walker Monument South of the Church of St Andrew in Leyland

The Walker Monument South of the Church of St Andrew in Leyland HEARE LIETH THE BODIE - part of The Walker Monument inscription The Walker Monument, which is to the south of the Church of St Andrew in Leyland, is quite remarkable.  With regard to this type of gravestone, it is the oldest that I have seen in a local parish setting, by quite some margin.  There are some seventeenth century stone slabs at St Mary's church in Penwortham.  However, this is nearly a century older. The Walker Monument - south of the Church of St Andrew in Leyland The Walker Monument is approximately twenty metres South of the Chancel of the Church of St Andrew in Leyland.  It is a raised monumental slab that is probably from 1588.  It commemorates William Walker, who was the Clerk of the Parish of Leyland, and who died in 1588.  The sandstone, rectangular slab is on a low stone base, and the surface bears a very unusual life-sized primitive figure drawn with incised line...