The Lancashire & North West Magazine | August 2022

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The Corn Exchange Building with Memorial in foreground. Photo Credit: Francis C Franklin/CC BY-SA 4.0

The Preston Memorial Which Remembers a Tragic Event 180 Years Ago By Margaret Brecknell

An imposing statue outside the Corn Exchange building on Lune Street in Preston commemorates one of the most tragic and shocking events in the city’s history, which took place in August 1842. 78

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