What Comes Into Your Mind When People Start Talking About Preston?

November 1979. I was a student in Liverpool. For reasons I don’t recall, I convinced my female flatmate to come with me to see City at Deepdale. After an uneventful 1-1 draw, I made the mistake of laughing when said flatmate stumbled and fell on the platform at Preston station. She didn’t speak to me for the rest of the day!

You will have gathered that I was hopeless when it came to understanding women and how to charm them. However, to my credit, we are still friends today!
 
The scene of my first football related arrest and subsequent appearance at Juvenile Court. Archie Gemmell starred for Preston that day and was the only person involved who was shorter than me. Even though the studs on his boots made him look taller than he really was. The Magistrates on the bench could just about see the top of my head as I peered over the front of the dock!
 
borebage53 said:
The scene of my first football related arrest and subsequent appearance at Juvenile Court. Archie Gemmell starred for Preston that day and was the only person involved who was shorter than me. Even though the studs on his boots made him look taller than he really was. The Magistrates on the bench could just about see the top of my head as I peered over the front of the dock!
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I saw the film of that at the ABC in Hardborough in 1976 (in a double bill with ‘The Market Town That Time Forgot’ starring Doug McClure as Councillor J.W. Symington). Wee David Cassidy played Archie Gemmill and Donald Pleasance was the Magistrate. For some reason, Arthur Mullard played you, and stole the show duetting with Cassidy on ‘Daydreamer’ sat arm in arm on the steps of Preston Railway Station.
 
PNE has a right afforded to no other football team...
I'll come back in a while with the answer unless somebody else knows it :)
 
Sleeping in the station waiting room (again) as I've missed a late night connection!

Same as Crewe!
 
Oadlad said:
PNE has a right afforded to no other football team...
I'll come back in a while with the answer unless somebody else knows it :)
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The Preston Manager has the right to herd millworkers over the Ribble bridge to mark ‘Gentry Day’ each year, when the frame knitters discard their traditional clogs and cloth caps in favour of long black wigs and cowgirl skirts, to sing about the downfall of Mark McGhee.
 
channys6thswan said:
I saw the film of that at the ABC in Hardborough in 1976 (in a double bill with ‘The Market Town That Time Forgot’ starring Doug McClure as Councillor J.W. Symington). Wee David Cassidy played Archie Gemmill and Donald Pleasance was the Magistrate. For some reason, Arthur Mullard played you, and stole the show duetting with Cassidy on ‘Daydreamer’ sat arm in arm on the steps of Preston Railway Station.
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I got 100 hours community service in the local black pudding factory and a small part as a pint sized delinquent alongside Micky Rooney in Boys Town!
 
channys6thswan said:
I saw the film of that at the ABC in Hardborough in 1976 (in a double bill with ‘The Market Town That Time Forgot’ starring Doug McClure as Councillor J.W. Symington). Wee David Cassidy played Archie Gemmill and Donald Pleasance was the Magistrate. For some reason, Arthur Mullard played you, and stole the show duetting with Cassidy on ‘Daydreamer’ sat arm in arm on the steps of Preston Railway Station.
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I got 100 hours community service in the local black pudding factory and a small part as a pint sized delinquent alongside Micky Rooney in Boys Town!
 
borebage53 said:
I got 100 hours community service in the local black pudding factory and a small part as a pint sized delinquent alongside Micky Rooney in Boys Town!
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‘Black Pudding Borebage’ was a minor hit up that way, if I recall. Wayne told me you’d be in his Dad’s gang, but put his finger to his lips when I asked after his gran.
 
neverbemastered said:
Nowt came to mind, so I had to look, they had first KFC.
Think everything else has been mentioned.
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Preston Guild. Every 10 years I think hence the Northern expression for rarity "once every Preston Guild."

I believe it was also where the Temperance movement first took off here. Probably explains why it is so dull.
 
first thing l think of, is that I've never been there.

now if you mentioned Leyland which l think is part of Preston, then 6 months of my life was fucked up by an incident there, and had fuck all to do with me !
 
Lozfox1978 said:
My grandparents’, mother’s and my birthplace.
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Perfect use of the apostrophe. Sorry for calling your birthplace dull. I only think of it as a staging point en route to Blackpool when I was a kid. We used to drive past English Electric I believe and then started the game of who can see Blackpool Tower first.
 
CityFox said:
The Orchard
Chain House
Guild Ale
Black Horse
Winckley Street
Plau
Plug & Taps
Wings & Beer
New Continental
Old Vic
Vinyl Tap
The Moorbrook
Grey Friars
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If you're a Preston pub afficianado, I used to work in the Old Black Bull on Friargate. The Old Vic must be the Vic and Station from my time.
 
CityFox said:
The Orchard
Chain House
Guild Ale
Black Horse
Winckley Street
Plau
Plug & Taps
Wings & Beer
New Continental
Old Vic
Vinyl Tap
The Moorbrook
Grey Friars
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anywhere to get some nice grub after the game, no shit holes that KP as recommended 🤪

Was gonna book the 1842 but its shut like most places in Preston on a Monday.

We've changed our plans are now staying in Preston instead of Blackpool.
 
Be struggling after the game. Apart from the Spoons - but that doesn’t fit in with the ‘anywhere nice’ 😂. I’ve literally just walked past it. Big place. Sunny today 😎
 

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bnet said:
anywhere to get some nice grub after the game, no shit holes that KP as recommended 🤪

Was gonna book the 1842 but its shut like most places in Preston on a Monday.

We've changed our plans are now staying in Preston instead of Blackpool.
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I’ll save you some black pudding!
 
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