• builder Preston station (Houston), Houston, Texas Preston (speedway), a British speedway team Preston North End F.C., an English football club Preston Grasshoppers...
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  • Preston were a British speedway team that existed from 1929 to 1932. They first competed in the English Dirt Track League (effectively the Northern League)...
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  • six-year sub-tenancy with Preston speedway team, and a dirt track was constructed around the perimeter of the rugby pitch. The speedway syndicate folded in...
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  • Preston North End Football Club, commonly referred to as Preston, North End or PNE, is a professional association football club in Preston, Lancashire...
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    The Battle of Preston (17–19 August 1648), fought largely at Walton-le-Dale near Preston in Lancashire, resulted in a victory for the New Model Army under...
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    Preston Bus is a bus operator running services in the city of Preston and surrounding areas of Lancashire. It is a subsidiary of Rotala, who purchased...
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  • motorcycle speedway rider who rode in the World Championship final in 1937. Joe began his career with local track Burnley in 1928 before moving onto Preston for...
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  • Ham Burrill (category Preston Speedway riders)
    (1903–1978) was an international speedway rider from England. Burrill came to prominence in 1929 when he became the Preston (speedway) captain for the inaugural...
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  • Fairgrounds Speedway and Motor City Speedway in Detroit. Preston won several[which?] championships in Michigan and Ontario.[citation needed] Preston was later...
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    Booths (category Companies based in Preston)
    Burscough Carnforth Chorley Clitheroe Fulwood, Preston Garstang Hesketh Bank Longridge Longton, Preston Lytham Penwortham Poulton-le-Fylde Scotforth, Lancaster...
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    The Battle of Preston (9–14 November 1715) was the final action of the Jacobite rising of 1715, an attempt to put James Francis Edward Stuart on the British...
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  • Claude Rye (category Preston Speedway riders)
    with Preston (speedway) and then joined Wimbledon Dons in 1931. In 1933, he won the Dirt Track Championnat du Monde (an early version of the Speedway World...
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  • 53.7839°N 2.7005°W / 53.7839; -2.7005 Preston College is a further education college in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. The college originally...
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  • (the rule was repealed in 1971). Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. was founded in Preston, Lancashire, England as a World War I-era works team for the company Dick...
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  • Les Wotton (category Preston Speedway riders)
    Liverpool. He stayed with Liverpool for the 1930 Speedway Northern League season before joining Preston for 1931. On the formation of the new National League...
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    Preston bus station is the central bus station in the city of Preston in Lancashire, England. It was built by Ove Arup and Partners in the Brutalist architectural...
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    The City of Preston, or simply Preston (/ˈprɛstən/ ), is a local government district with city status in Lancashire, England. It lies on the north bank...
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    The Preston Strike and Lune Street Riot, which took place in Preston, in Lancashire, England over 12 and 13 August 1842, were part of the 1842 General...
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  • Tommy Price (born 1907) (category Preston Speedway riders)
    Thomas Arthur Price (28 October 1907 - April 1989) was a motorcycle speedway rider who rode for several teams between 1929 and 1937. Price first rode for...
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    Deepdale (category Buildings and structures in Preston)
    Deepdale is a football stadium in the Deepdale area of Preston, England, the home of Preston North End. Deepdale is widely recognised as being the oldest...
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    The Preston Bypass was the United Kingdom's first motorway, opened in 1958. It was designed and engineered by Lancashire County Council surveyor James...
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    in Ingol in Preston's northwest from 1981 until its closure in 2017, when it was deemed nonviable due to dwindling membership. Speedway racing, then...
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  • The Preston Pals — officially 'D' Company, 7th (Service) Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment — were a group of men from the town of Preston in Lancashire...
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    Preston Thomas Tucker (21 September 1903 – 26 December 1956) was an American automobile entrepreneur who developed the innovative Tucker 48 sedan, initially...
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    Preston is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2000 by Sir Mark Hendrick, a member of the Labour Party and Co-operative...
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    Lancashire (abbreviated UCLan) is a public university based in the city of Preston, Lancashire, England. It has its roots in The Institution For The Diffusion...
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  • Ronald Nunan Preston (born July 15, 1958) is an American former international motorcycle speedway rider who was the European Junior Champion in 1979. He...
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  • The Preston Mountaineering Club is one of the older mountaineering clubs in the United Kingdom. Members from the Preston and Blackburn area founded the...
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  • Preston Zingari F.C. was an association football club from Preston, Lancashire, England, active in the 1880s and 1890s. The club, founded by John McGregor...
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    Preston railway station, in Preston, Lancashire, England, is an interchange railway station on the West Coast Main Line, half-way between London Euston...
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