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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 3:05 pm 
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Guide Square near Blackburn was a New Town, sadly its just wasteland nowerdays, although the Stanton 2d columns with either GEC Z5590/Beta 4/Revo Prefect lanterns are still there thankfully.

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What? The whole town was demolished?  Why?!  :shock:

This sounds worthy of some exploration by yours truly, especially if my favourite genre of lighting is there ie top-entry mercuries on concrete columns! Thanks USL I might do a bit of research on this.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:19 pm 
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Guide square wasn't a new town, it was merely a prefab housing estate, and once permanent homes had been built the prefabs became redundant and the estate became redundant.


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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:47 pm 
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Ah i thought it was. Oops.

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PostPosted: Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:55 pm 
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To save further confusion in the future, the English New Towns are:

•Basildon
•Bracknell
•Central Lancashire (Preston, Chorley & Leyland)
•Corby
•Crawley
•Harlow
•Hemel Hempstead
•Milton Keynes
•Northampton
•Peterborough
•Redditch
•Runcorn
•Skelmersdale
•Stevenage
•Telford
•Warrington
•Washington
•Welwyn and Hatfield

In Scotland:

•East Kilbride
•Glenrothes
•Cumbernauld
•Livingston
•Irvine


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PostPosted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 1:35 am 
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Preston and Peterborough are new towns?? Well I've learnt something new!

I presume that for Preston, it was merely a formality - as the town has been there for a lot longer than the 'new town' status; for example, it used to be a port town.

Thinking about peterborough, it does have a similar feeling to it as MK!

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I don't understand how Preston can be designated a new town? What exactly is new about it? Preston Guild was founded in 1179 and it's said that the city (or town as was) was founded by the Saxons. Most of the housing around the central areas is pre-20th century. The city centre itself is full of old buildings like the Harris Library and Museum and the Miller Arcade which were both built in the early 1890s and several other Victorian buildings. Also Preston played a key part in the Industrial Revolution. Similarly, Chorley and Leyland have a lot of old buildings and a lot of history so how on earth any of these can be classed as 'new towns' is beyond me. I know a lot of the new towns existed before WWII but they were much smaller and less important, I don't think the same can be said for Preston.


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Basingstoke is effectively a new town. Like other new towns, there was a small settlement there before, but the post war era saw huge development.


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The difference is development at a location where there wasn't anything there before - MK, the nearest settlement probably being Bletchley and expansion of an existing settlement such as the Preston region and Basingstoke.

The New Town Act was post war legislation which came on the statute book in 1946, Stevenage being the first New Town.


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I've always thought of Preston as a city... sort of a west-coast version of York. But if the whole area was designated a new town, that would explain why the postcodes in Chorley start off with PR

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