Download or read book A History of Preston written by David Hunt and published by Gardners Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a century and a half Preston was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, with mills and terraced houses for the workers. Charles Dickens used Preston as the darkest face of Victorian industry in his novel Hard Times. This book tells the complete story of Preston's development from earliest times onwards.