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The old Preston railway station was described by Anthony Hewitson in 1882 as “one of the most dismal, dilapidated, disgraceful-looking structures in Christendom… not only a very ill-looking, but an exceedingly inconvenient, dangerous station”. It was rebuilt in 1883, but this photograph (taken from Fishergate Bridge in 1862) shows the older building, a ramshackle collection of sheds and structures which, if the appalling state of the roof is any guide, certainly merited that derogatory description.
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