Now That's What I Call Preston

by Johnson, Keith

• ISBN13: 9781445674209
• ISBN10: 1445674203
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2018-12-01
• Publisher: Amberley Publishing

Summary

The sixties, seventies and eighties were decades of great change in Preston. This period saw major city centre redevelopment projects that dramatically affected its character. People’s shopping habits began to change as supermarkets took over from traditional stores and corner shops. Leisure habits were changing, too, and Preston saw an ever-increasing range of facilities. Transport also evolved, with a move away from the railway, creating a greater strain on the roads and the major new road schemes only compounded the changing face of this Lancashire city.These changes in people’s lifestyles were keenly felt in Preston and local author and historian Keith Johnson has captured them all in this fascinating portrayal of how the city and its people changed over the course of these most nostalgic decades.

Author Biography

Keith Johnson is an engineering design/development engineer having worked in the Printing Press industry for more than 35 years. He has studied history for the last 25 years both locally and nationally and has had a number of successful books to his name. He has also contributed numerous articles on local history to the Lancashire Evening Post for the last 15 years, and is a member of the Crime Writers Association and the Lancashire Authors Association.