My Lancashire - My accounts of the local area

Ribchester Workhouse and the Preston Civic Crest In 2024, I spent a quite bit of time looking for examples of Preston's Civic Crest , which is a version of the Coat-of-Arms for the City of Preston, that adorned many places around 'Town'. Preston's Civic Crest at the former Ribchester Workhouse   Another Lying Down Lamb with a Flag... On my travels in July 2024, I approached Longridge from Ribchester.  Always on the lookout for things of interest, I spotted the Preston Civic Crest (Coat of Arms) on the front of a building.  I can't say that I had ever noticed before.  After my delve into the history related to the one on the sign of the former Corporation Arms public house at Longridge, I just assumed that it was also something related to the water works and Longridge reservoirs.  The former Ribchester Workhouse at Frances Green Farm Preston's Civic Crest at the former Ribchester Workhouse Once I got back home, and sat behind the computer to research things ...

PEDESTRIANISM •  A foot-race was run on Tuesday last Pedestrianism at Little Walton Hall in Walton le Dale, a Seventeenth Century Building PEDESTRIANISM .-A foot-race was run on Tuesday last, between George Eastham, alias Clogger, of this town, and Robert Cooper, of Mottram. The race came off at Belle Vue, near Manchester, for £30 a side. At first, the betting was decidedly in favour of the Mottram runner; but when the men stripped, it changed to from five to four on Clogger, who got the lead and was never headed, -winning the race by four or five yards. The distance was 220 yards. PEDESTRIANISM •  A foot-race was run on Tuesday last |  Preston Chronicle Publication: Preston Chronicle Date: Saturday,  Nov. 1, 1845 From Gale Primary Sources, British Library Newspapers: https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/Y3207425394/BNCN?u=lancs&sid=bookmark-BNCN&pg=2&xid=c2991adf I came across  PEDESTRIANISM  when looking through old news papers on the  British ...

BUILDERS FIND FARMHOUSE RUINS Builders Find Farmhouse Ruins in Victoria Road, Fulwood, Preston A newspaper cutting from 1959 that I found on the Preston Digital Archive documents the discovery of an Ancient Farmhouse in Fulwood. Builders Find Farmhouse Ruins in Fulwood, Newspaper-Article BUILDERS FIND FARMHOUSE RUINS A relic of old Fulwood By A " POST " REPORTER BUILDERS levelling waste land in Victoria-road, Fulwood, for a block of flats have unearthed the brick remains of a farm-house dating back nearly 200 years. But the sunken building, I with its 2ft. thick walls, Longridge-stone steps, and narrow doorways, will soon vanish again beneath a 6ft. layer of concrete. The historic find came to light this week when men from William Jackson (Preston) Ltd.. building contractors of Douglas Road North, Fulwood, began work on preparing the site for the two-storey flats and garages. PLOUGHED DEEP Bulldozers and an excavator ploughed deep into the ground to uncover a bit of old Ful...