Very relaxing footage. The canal network is a real corridor of wildlife. I’ve watched kingfishers catching small fish on the brook that flows under the canal near this spot. Thanks for taking the time to film. All the best Pete

Great footage. I spotted this family on the 11th June with both parents another bridge up . Hope the missing adult swan is not far away. Thanks for taking the time to film. All the best Pete 👍

An excellent film (video). More people should have seen it. We'll keep posting it on 'Preston History'. I presume the title is concatenated (all joined up) to 'CourtauldsColoursOfTheWorldProject' based on the filename of the video you originally uploaded. You can edit that. It might help with search. Also, the name "Red Scar" seems a bit random for a house. [ 7:42 ] I can't find any evidence, but I would think the name comes from the physical landscape. The earth around Tun Brook and the bend in the river is quite a strong red colour and would look like a 'Red Scar' from a distance. Satellite image: maps.app.goo.gl/juGCm3x64XWe8AT98

6:15 - I was a cook, in that 'Adult Trainee' Centre (ATC- centre, as it was called then) for Lanc's County Council, around 1984-1986. It was a lovely time there, the staff were pleasant & all the attendee's with all the levels of disabilities, were nice & gentile too. Sorry to see it's been, its been flatten'd - v Sad, it was a lovely build, 'art deco' round room that gave years of pleasant daily living, for all the patients then. In that glimpse, was as the lovely, airy 'Snooker poker' room shot, where they'd play all day long (often not even potting even a ball, ha ha, ha, ha) Nostalgic times !

Thanks for this - & for the knowledge about Amazing things i never new had happened You legend !

Great Video . Brings back memories of Christmas Parties for the employee kids ! My dad’s dark blue overalls reeking with acid were washed in our kitchen sink by my mum for years .( she died of Anaplastic Gastro-Esophageal Cancer age 64 . Missing out on retirement . I wonder if the acid fumes did this ?My dad worked @ Courtaulds . Redscar , Preston. Lancs. as a Spinner nights (CPT) for 16 years till closing as a Supervisor . Re-training as a tool and dye maker at Blackburn after 2,400 Courtauld’s were made redundant over night ! I wonder where Courtaulds went ? Cornwall . Ontario Canada ? or just an Art Gallery in London ? 70’s Maggie’s Globalization!

Hey isn’t that a train that is based off from Disney’s The Wind in the Willows?

Great to see the docks working as it once was.

I was there, just about on your vid actually, great edit, missed the arrival so this was great, cheers.

A beautiful part of the world!.. thanks for a wonderful trip back down memory lane, I have very fond memories of Preston and Fulwood from my posting to the barracks.

I was born in Sharah Green hospital (now poshed up to Sharoe green) but alas I don't remember much about it.

Thankyou for bringing back so many memories. I was 4 years old from Glasgow and lived in Egremont gardens with my parents and remember being down at the Abbey on many occasions.I also remember being lifted to look over a wall into large gardens to see the peacocks . This was back in 1970 so i may have a few memories muddled .I will have to dig out the photos i have

No idea why this just showed up in my feed. I'm glad it did. The photograph is very pleasing, both technically and aesthetically. The details are interesting too. I have an interest in historical clothing and seeing a crinoline authentically worn is mind blowing. Q. Victoria aside. The sign on the building too. National Trust is clearlynfollowing an old tradition. Saving this one. Thank you.

A well put together film, so why do I have such a problem with the staircase. The top part just has too many steps in reality and even if you were elevated it would be still very difficult to get the slow rise form the top of the steps to where the men are standing. The missing steps area could have been filled in with dirt to give the same aspect as the picture. The walls certainly look like part of the lower area has not been exposed to the elements for as long as the top parts. I just don't feel like the picture is the same staircase and would be interested in your explanation.

Thanks for this. I love all the history of Ashton etc

hi there i lived in grange in the 60s and 70s there was no sea grass it was all rocks and sand up to the prom must do a road trip bk to my old stomping ground with my mini 4

Very much appreciated that the clip isn't using *that* AI-generated voice. I can't bear to hear it anymore. Makes the narration here very pleasant to hear by comparison.

Labour council are useless. You seen the state of the town?

Fantastic photos, keep them coming, thanks.

Even though I was born and bred in Blackburn, I find your videos very interesting, they help colour what for me is now home (Preston), but wasn't for the first 35+ years of my life.

love your videos/thankyou

Very interesting. I lived at 62 hesketh street until I left home, my parents continued to live there. The house was originally bought by my grandfather Hayward Boneham.

Great video xXx

I'm led to believe it was founded in 1123 by Stephen, Count of Boulogne, later King of England (1135-54).

I dated a woman from Southampton, UK and she told me in her teens kids would sneak into church ruins like this after dark and drink, do drugs, and have sex. I am American so we just had to settle for the woods. lol

This video is everything I've been looking for for as long as I can remember. I'm originally from Barrow but left in 2001 and the abbey always fascinated me. I've been eager to understand what the abbey both looked like in its prime and what life might have looked like for those who called it home. Thanks so much for filling in the blanks.

Brilliant video, thanks for sharing

One of the less visited Dales, but perhaps better for it.

This got me very nostalgic. I was a student nurse between 1993-1996 and lived in at Sharoe Green Hospital (as I was not from Preston). The old work house had become part of the University and served as the faculty of health. I spent many an hour attending lectures in that beautiful building.

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Very interesting and informative - thank you for posting this!

A small gang of us would walk the mile to town. No parents The older ones (9 0r 10) were trusted to look after the young ones ( 4 or 5 ) A bob to get in for three hours entertainment. The ABC in Chester. ( But sometimes we were traitors and went to the Odeon instead 😅) But they never had the letter badges like the ABC. Remember buying one every week till you could spell out your name on your jumper? We used to dance to music up on the stage before the films and cartoons started. Simpler but much happier times. Makes me a bit sad to recall

and on the 3/11 date that has to be in everything. ? 11/3 the date that the bug was declared a pandemic and on the USA election date.. 11/3. ???????

Thank you. A great example that it wasn't only Protestants that were harshly persecuted but also Catholics too 💔 🙏

Great capture. Thanks for sharing.

I was lucky enough to have been there with my brother a few times from the late 80's until the early 90's when it waa still open.On a sunny warm day this place was absolutely stunning! The view of the bay alone was breathtaking from such a great viewpoint. The swimming bath oozed old fasioned style,which i loved as a kid. The pool was filled with saltwater which i always found a novelty as i'd never swam in a saltwater pool unlil then. The diving boards were all opperational too at all hights. Truely wonderful place,abdolutely made up that they are willing to fix it up and make it great again as it truely deserves that.

The subtitles could do with chucking out. Number 1. Then perhaps replacing with greater accuracy? How much is that to ask?

WE ARE PROUD. Words and music, Gary Cunliffe and Ian Gray, 1991. We belong to a town With a thousand years of history, With traditions and a story Which have made its people proud. We belong to a town Where the road could ford the river, Where monks were given lands And where priests could build their town. And the place began to grow Through its markets and its trade And a charter from the king came by decree. And the merchants had their court Where their rules and laws were made And the Guild began and made the borough free. CHORUS: We are proud Of the history that surrounds us Of the great events and names that make the story of our town. We are proud To be children born of Preston, Let us sing it clear and loud For we are proud. People knew troubled times Lived through strife and plague and famine, Trembled under Cromwell’s sword As he closed the Civil War. Scottish armies marching south Marching for The Old Pretender, Were defeated in our streets A final fight on English soil. And when cotton came to town Life could never be the same With the mills and smoke that revolution brings. But we went from strength to strength Helped by Arkwright and his frame And by Horrocks who made Preston’s cotton King! CHORUS: We are proud............. We belong to a town Where a thousand years of history Are only the beginning of Much greater things to come. We belong to a town Which is proudly now a city, The future waits for all In this place we call our home. This shouldn’t be a thing we say Once in every twenty years When in our hearts We feel it every day. CHORUS: We are proud.............

"to be gifted to the Cumbria Archives " is US-american. In England, we say "to be left to ...".

Very sad state it is in when I saw it today. I hope it can be restored in the future.

I used to sing this at the a b c in croydon. Memories of taking my 2 brothers with me n returning to carribean sunday meal, gram playing with dads Trojan records in late 60s early 70s. GNia poet

Amazing photos, and so glad they were recovered. Seeing the change in the Abbey from the early 1900’s to the present is stunning. What Furness Abbey Hotel and Station were a tragic loss.

Very Victorian style.

Exceptionally interesting and atmospheric photographs of this grand and moving ruin. A pity about the banal soundtrack..

Founded almost 900 years ago, Furness Abbey was once the largest and wealthiest monastery in north-west England. A place of prayer, piety and pilgrimage, the abbey was also a major landowner, its abbot occupying an important place in the administration of the region. Today, Furness has some of the finest monastic ruins in England. Its buildings are witnesses to the lives of the monks who worshipped and lived there between the 12th and early 16th centuries While excavating the grave of a prosperous medieval abbot, a hoard of medieval treasures was discovered at Furness Abbey. This discovery unearthed the first crozier (a staff with a crook on top) to be excavated in Britain in over 50 years and an impressive gemstone ring was also found. Emergency conservation work is taking place to stop the ruined abbey church sinking into the soft ground. This follows earlier routine inspections which revealed serious cracks in the walls. Medieval masons used large pieces of oak in the foundations and after 500 years, this timber is now gradually giving way.

Enjoyed, thanks for the work and showing just how many good photos of the Abbey there are in the collection. I would like to know who some of the people are on the photos.

Really interesting thanks for compiling brilliant

Stunning 🤗