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Lancashire Evening Post4y
Museum appeals for Preston residents' family war stories for new art project - Lancashire Evening Post
A major art project is under way to commemorate Prestonians’ memories of the Second World War. The city’s Harris Museum is working with the Imperial War Museum (IWM) to commemorate the 80th ...
Lancashire Evening Post on MSN23h
Spud Bros: radical revamp of Preston’s hot potato tram set for go-ahead
Preston’s Spud Bros look set to be granted permission to replace the city’s iconic hot potato tram with a larger unit.The ...
Blog Preston4h
Spud Bros set for permission to replace tram with larger unit
Proposed CGI of the new Spud Bros unit Preston’s Spud Bros look set to be granted permission to replace the city’s iconic hot ...
The Northern Echo8y
Special exhibition of war hero’s paintings at Preston Park Museum
A SPECIAL exhibition has been created to celebrate the life and times of a First World War officer. Spence: The Art of War tells the remarkable story of Colonel Gilbert Ormerod Spence, Commander ...
BBC19y
WW2 People's War - Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin Part One - Evacuees at school in Preston and later at the Hitchin Girls Grammar School - BBC
Wartime memories of Preston near Hitchin Part One — Evacuees at school in Preston and later at the Hitchin Girls Grammar School. Part one of an oral history interview with Mrs. Rebecca Cook ...
The Northern Echo8y
Special exhibition of war hero’s paintings at Preston Park Museum
About 50 of Col Spence’s watercolours are on display at Preston Park Museum, near Eaglescliffe, Stockton, until October 30, highlighting the ‘human side of war’.Paintings of barren ...