IMAGES TAKEN NEAR TO
Princess Street, PRESTON, PR5 5HT
Introduction
This page details the photographs taken nearby to Princess Street, PR5 5HT by members of the Geograph project.
The Geograph project started in 2005 with the aim of publishing, organising and preserving representative images for every square kilometre of Great Britain, Ireland and the Isle of Man.
There are currently over 7.5m images from over14,400 individuals and you can help contribute to the project by visiting https://www.geograph.org.uk
Image Map
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Notes
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- The higher the marker number, the further away the image location is from the centre of the postcode.
Image Listing (18 Images Found)
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image
Details
Distance
1
Sherdley Road Industrial Estate, Cuerden Green Mills
Former cotton spinning mill at Lostock Hall. Now split into industrial units.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 10 May 2015
0.08 miles
2
Lostock Hall Locomotive Depot, with 0-6-0Ts
View westward, towards Liverpool, Farington Curve Junction and Preston, with the Shed on the right, the Station being behind. LMS 3F 0-6-0T No. 47360 and (earlier, ex-Midland) No. 47211 built 8/1899, withdrawn 11/64) are in the foreground, with another ex-Midland one (No. 47201 (built 6/1901, withdrawn 12/66), behind; No. 47360 (built 1926) was already withdrawn from service in 7/63. Lostock Hall Depot (coded 24C) had an allocation of 40 locomotives in 1954:- 9 0-6-0, 11 2-6-4T, 2 2-4-2T, 3 0-6-0T and 15 ex-War Department 2-8-0s, and it was one of the very last depots to retain steam locomotives - until August 1968.
Image: © Ben Brooksbank
Taken: 20 Aug 1963
0.11 miles
3
Lostock View
Row of houses off Sherdley Road, between the industrial estate and the river.
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 10 May 2015
0.12 miles
4
Lunar Factory, Sherdley Road Industrial Estate
Image: © David Dixon
Taken: 10 May 2015
0.13 miles
6
Lostock Hall railway station (site), Lancashire
Opened in 1849 by the East Lancashire Railway, later part of the Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, on the line from Blackburn to Preston, this station closed in 1969 and was demolished.
View west from Watkin Lane bridge towards Preston, and previously towards Ormskirk and Liverpool. The Lostock Hall steam shed (closed 1968) occupied the derelict land to the left of the picture.
A new Lostock Hall station was opened in 1988 by British Rail, immediately behind the camera position. See Image
Image: © Nigel Thompson
Taken: 7 Oct 2012
0.13 miles
7
Redbrick
Methodist Church on the B5254 Watkin Lane at Lostock Hall
Image: © Roger May
Taken: 10 Nov 2005
0.13 miles
