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Preston Village

The heart of Preston is the village, centred around North Road, Middle Road, South Road and Preston Road.

  • Map of the area c1990

    Map of the area c1990

    Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990.  As a result, some of ...
  • The heart of Preston

    The heart of Preston

    Please note that this text is an extract from a reference work written in 1990.  As a result, some of ...
Preston
  • "I like living by the park"
  • A great inspiration and celebration
  • A great place to be
  • A heavy snow in 1962
  • A lesson in life
  • A murder mystery for you
  • A personal memorial
  • A popular place for weddings
  • A potted history
  • A quiet place
  • A throwback to the end of the previous century
  • Aerial view 1991
  • Blandfords
  • Boasts the largest municipal rock garden in the UK
  • Boxing group c1956
  • Brian's view of the park
  • Brothers and blindness
  • Built in early English style c1250
  • Burying your pets
  • Childhood memories of a nursery
  • Class photo c1956
  • Covers an area of 63 acres
  • Cream and green canopies in the 1950s
  • Cycle Racing in the 1950s
  • Cycle racing in the 1960s
  • Cycle Track Club Meetings 1948/49
  • Demolition of Preston Place 2004
  • Developed from the 1880s
  • Developed from the 1880s
  • Developed with red-brick villas c1880
  • Did you know?
  • Did you know?
  • Did you know?
  • Did you know? - Interesting Facts
  • Ditchling Road and Hollingdean Road, c1939
  • Downland church built of local flint rubble
  • Ford Endeavour Motor Company
  • Friends of Preston Manor Gardens
  • Frozen to the spot
  • Grocer store photograhed in 1952
  • Happy days in the park
  • Hartley and Midgeley: Motor dealers and garage
  • Hide and seek and wasp stings
  • History notes: 1854-1987
  • History notes: 1893-1987
  • Home of an Edwardian gentry family
  • I've arrived at last
  • Information re Mystery Photograph
  • It's nice in the sandpit
  • Joining the congregation at St Peter's Church
  • Large villas replaced by office blocks
  • Link to the church website
  • Looking out for the Brighton Belle
  • Magic from my mother's bedroom
  • Memories across the years
  • Memories of the 1950s
  • Memories of the 1950s
  • My first real bicycle
  • My great-grandparents
  • Newts and frogspawn
  • North of Preston Village
  • Not in London anymore
  • Notes & Queries: Old Boat Corner
  • Notes and queries: Inscription on the tower
  • Once formed an ancient trackway
  • Opened on 1st November 1869
  • Originally owned by V.P. Bennett-Stanford
  • Origins dating to 13th century
  • Painted doors
  • Pets' Graveyard: a little history
  • Photo circa 1890
  • Photo from the Nineteenth Century
  • Playing servants
  • Preston Manor Gallery
  • Preston Park
  • Preston Park Cycle Track
  • Preston Park Rockery
  • Preston Village
  • Programme from a carnival in 1888
  • Purchased for £50,000 in 1883
  • Remembering a wedding
  • Rose Garden Restoration
  • Sitting in the shade of the clock tower
  • Sold to Brighton Council for £50,000 in 1883
  • Sound before sight
  • South of Preston Park
  • St Peter's Preston Park: Medieval wall paintings at risk
  • The biggest playground
  • The end of the line for the trolley buses
  • The middle cottage
  • The park now and then
  • The Rockery: designed in 1935
  • The Rose Garden
  • The second highest road in the city
  • Undated photo looking north
  • Vine and Lee Motor Dealers
  • Wedding and working
  • Well-rutted and cratered in the 1950s
  • Prestonville
  • Introduction to Preston
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