United Kingdom / Preston subjects

22 out of 41 (53%) plaques have been curated

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Gender Diversity


John Wesley MA
(1703-1791) evangelist
Preston North End Football Club
association football club
Isaac Simpson
(1800-1859) gold thread manufacturer
Stephen Simpson
(1832-1891) gold thread manufacturer
Charles Edward Stuart
(1720-1788) member of the Jacobite rising of 1745
Edith Rigby
(1872-1948) Suffragette
John Horrocks
(1768-1804) pioneer cotton manufacturer
Thomas Miller
(1811-1865) cotton manufacturer
Rev Joseph Dunn
(1746-1827) Reverend
Francis Thompson
(1859-1907) poet
Sir John Bagot Glubb CMG OBE MC KCB DSO
(1897-1986) "Glubb Pasha"
Joseph Livesey
(1794-1884) founder of the Temperance Movement
Robert Service
(1874-1958) poet of the Yukon
Preston Railway Station
railway station
Dick, Kerr's Ladies' Football Club
(1917-1965) association football club
Martha Thompson
(1733-1820)
Preston Catholic College
(1865-1978) college
Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) Founding Father of the United States
Sir James Drake
(1907-1989) founding father and pioneer of the modern motorway network
Dr Fraser M. Rose
(1897-1972) general practitioner
Sir Richard Arkwright
(1732-1792) industrialist
timber bridge of the Old Tram Road
(1833-1879) bridge
John Tyndall FRS
(1820-1893) Fellow of the Royal Society