Introduction to Preston
Victorian housing developments c1860
Reproduced with permission from the Encyclopaedia of Brighton by Tim Carder, 1990
The print well conveys the way the railway destroyed the order and tranquillity of the countryside by the 'invasion of land'. The train thundering through the still rural village of Preston forms a poignant juxtaposition of past and future.
Reproduced courtesy of Royal Pavilion, & Museums, Brighton & Hove
This page was added on 13/10/2007.