Category Archives: Preston Bus Station

1968

Posted on February 5, 2008 by Sally Stone

Created with Admarket’s flickrSLiDR. Something for transport/concrete enthusiasts: a set of discarded slides of Preston Bus Station during construction and soon after. The building is of course “about to be demolished” – perhaps the architects (BDP Preston) expected a forty … Continue reading →

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Go Bus: Glancey in Preston

Posted on October 1, 2007 by Sally Stone

Today’s Guardian arts supplement includes a Jonathan Glancey tribute to Preston Bus Station. Much too late to have any effect we fear. According to a recent item in the Lancashire Evening Post the building will be ‘half-demolished’ while a new … Continue reading →

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Analogue and Digital

Posted on June 29, 2006 by Sally Stone

Another minute in the death of Preston Bus Station, soon to be demolished. The use of analogue and digital time displays was a compromise of the late ‘sixties and early ‘seventies as people got used to decimalization and the 24 … Continue reading →

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