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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank everyone who was involved in the
research that went into the making of this book: Christine
Curtis and family; Preston Digital Archives; Preston Past -
Facebook; Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives;
Manchester City Council who gave us permission to use the
black & white images in the book; Digital Archives Association;
Cheshire Archives and all of my friends in Preston who helped
me develop my, “Special sense of Preston humour”.
And a special thank you to Andrew Simpson, who not only
encouraged me to write this book on my own but offered his
specialist skills regarding the historical accuracy where needed.
I would also like to thank the following people in no
particular order whose help, knowledge and research into this
book was extremely valuable: my children David, James and
Elizabeth for listening to Dad Jokes; Creamline Dairies; Bonnie
J. Malcolm; Terence McNicholls; Hardy Productions for the video
of Hough End Hall Tunnel; Nick Berish; Ted Harris; Bill Sumner;
Samuel Legg; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center; W Carter;
Google Street Maps; Bob Cooke and MIP; Donna Jones;
OpenStreetMap; Ken Foster’s Cycles; Maneet Kapoor and
Wilbraham Road Pharmacy; Tim & Mike Burgess; Greg Willson
and Redeemer Church; Jolene Sheehan; Catherine Brownhill;
Linsey Parkinson and Open Up Magazines; Vicky and Jo at
Chorlton Bookshop; Linda Rigby and Laxlo Underhill.
With regards to the public domain images, a big thank you
to the subscribers of Pixbay, Unsplash, Free Images, Wikimedia
and Wikipedia.
Also, I would like to thank my wife Linda again for her
understanding, and help with yet another book.
I would like to especially thank Lindy Newns, who again
spent many hours proofreading and editing the copy.
If I have missed anyone out in the Acknowledgements, I
apologise sincerely.

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