Mount Pleasant (Photo from Preston - Alan Crosby) Mount? Pleasant? When outside in the sunshine maybe but these typical terraced houses would have been far from pleasant to live in up Everton Gardens (Photo from Preston - Alan Crosby) Another typical street from the 1800s. Not much room outside never mind inside! I wonder where the gardens are! Carlisle Street, where Grandad lived in the early 1900s, was adjacent. Preston Bus Station,

Pleasant Mount (Photo from Preston - Alan Crosby) Another view. The basement rooms were originally built for hand loom weavers. When power loom weaving suddenly expanded in the 1840s the basements became dwellings. Nigel Morgan estimates over 1000 of these abodes lasted well into the 20th Century in Preston.

Pleasant Mount (Photo from Preston - Alan Crosby) Another view. The basement rooms were originally built for hand loom weavers. When power loom weaving suddenly expanded in the 1840s the basements became dwellings. Nigel Morgan estimates over 1000 of thes