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 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, itself planned for demolition, now covers this site.

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,