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Staffordshire bull terrier still waiting for forever home after being moved to RSCPA centre in Ribbleton

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What is Ribbleton

Ribbleton provides horse training that will transform the relationship between you and your horse. Teaching horses to work with you as they connect to and explore their bodies enables them to have long term lasting effects on their biomechanics (body health). For more information, Visit us!  

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Best-selling @authorajhartley on his roots in #Preston and being inspired by @harrispreston’s historic photographs

Author AJ (Andrew) Hartley has been delving into the Harris’ fabulous historic photograph collection to find inspiration for his novels. Here he writes about how he has his own memories of the city and photographs from the Harris to create his Steeplejack series and a brand new book set in 1970s Preston.

“I was born in Ribbleton, Preston, in 1964 and lived there untiI I went away to university, after which life took me to Japan and eventually to the United States where I have lived ever since. I am, among other things, a novelist. I was a writer in my early years too, I suppose, but it took decades for what was once a hobby to start paying the mortgage, and in the interim I have only made it back to Preston once or twice a year at most, so my sense of the town is still largely stamped not so much by the way it is now but how it was when I was a kid.

Fishergate, c. 1900 Copyright Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library

Lately I’ve been working on a couple of projects which encouraged me to look back at that place, not just to how I knew it, but how it was before I was born. I’ve been writing an adventure series set in a world inspired by the way Victorian South Africa might have been had a city like Durban become a major industrial centre. Though I’ve spent time in that part of the world, much of the steam-driven town I invented grew out of my sense of Preston, albeit transferred to a land surrounded by bush populated by lion and elephant. The first novel of the series was called Steeplejack, that being the profession of the protagonist. In the US, the word is largely unknown and many people think I made it up, though as people my age will recall, steeplejacks who followed the old ways were still just about a part of Lancashire life back in the seventies, when Fred Dibnah became, for a little while, a minor TV celebrity. It was my memory of Preston’s nineteenth century factory chimneys (and those later and still more impressive stacks such as those at Courtaulds, Red Scar) which shaped the beginnings of this novel. Thanks to the Harris Library’s photograph collection, I was able to revisit some of those places and learn more about the town as it was, and the people who lived and worked there. As an expat, it’s satisfying to write what most of my readers will see as fantasy, knowing that it is in fact grounded in real and personal things. That is, after all, the only way to write.

Factory chimneys, Preston. Copyright Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library

Next year I have a new book coming out from the University of Central Lancashire, one which literalizes that idea since it is set in Preston in 1978, and draws heavily not just on the architecture and ambience of the town, but on its ghost stories and folklore. It’s called Cold Bath Street, and is also closely connected to the Harris, a place I explored a lot when I was young. It even features an uncanny encounter with one of the gallery’s best known paintings, Pauline in the Yellow Dress, by James Gunn, an image whose eyes always seemed to follow me round the building!

Sir James Gunn RA, Pauline in the Yellow Dress. Copyright Harris Museum, Art Gallery & Library

We think of museums as place that you visit to look back into a past you didn’t, couldn’t know, but they are also places that show you yourself, or parts of yourself, as you once were long ago, and that can be a useful way of determining who you are now.”

Andrew Hartley

We can’t wait to read Cold Bath Street when it comes out next year! See more of the photos from the Harris that have inspired Andrew, and find out about his books at http://ajhartley.net/steeplejack/industrial-architecture/

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Support Worker Jobs / Care Jobs / Preston

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Preston murder investigation: family pay tribute to Rosie

Preston murder investigation: family pay tribute to Rosie

A woman who was sadly found dead in Preston has been named. We were called at 2am on Thursday, February 7th to the report of an altercation on Pope Lane. Emergency Services attended and found the body of Rosie Darbyshire, 27, from Ribbleton on a pavement close to junction with Village Drive.

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Ribbleton provides horse training that will allow you to clearly see your bond with your horse. With no treats or clickers (positive) or pressure& release (negative) reinforcement needed! Ribbleton teaches you how to achieve lasting happiness using intrinsic motivation! It's a whole new way for your horse to have a long and sustainable, harmonious relationship. Visit us for more details.

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It is critical to understand what your horse is trying to tell you to be able to create a happy and eager horse. Ribbleton will show you once and for all how to step in and be what your horse needs. It’s time to transform you horse life and reach your dreams.

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Ribbleton offers horse training that will help you to see your relationship with your horse clearly. Ribbleton teaches you how to create sustainable happiness with no treats (positive) or pressure (negative) reinforcement needed! It’s a whole new way to have a long and sustainable harmonious relationship with your horse. For more info, visit us.

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Ribbleton provides horse training that will allow you to clearly see your bond with your horse. With no treats or clickers (positive) or pressure& release (negative) reinforcement needed! Ribbleton teaches you how to achieve lasting happiness using intrinsic motivation! It's a whole new way for your horse to have a long and sustainable, harmonious relationship. Visit us for more details.

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To have a happy and eager horse it is necessary that you understand your horse’s behavior – you’ve got to understand what they are trying to tell you! Ribbleton provides you with kind horse training that will show you how to understand your horse once and for all. Get in contact with us, if you want to have a better bond with your horse.

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Preston murder investigation: family pay tribute to Rosie

Preston murder investigation: family pay tribute to Rosie

A woman who was sadly found dead in Preston has been named. We were called at 2am this morning (Thursday, February 7th) to the report of an altercation on Pope Lane in the Moor Nook area. Emergency Services attended and found the body of Rosie Darbyshire, 27, from Ribbleton on a pavement close to junction with Village Drive. She had been subjected to a brutal and sustained assault.

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Concern growing for missing Vietnamese nationals

We are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of five Vietnamese nationals who have gone missing from an address in Badgers Croft in the Ribbleton area of Preston.

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Concern growing for missing Vietnamese nationals

We are becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of five Vietnamese nationals who have gone missing from an address in Badgers Croft in the Ribbleton area of Preston.

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Memories of a #Preston Children’s Librarian in the 1950s

@harrisfriends member, and Harris volunteer, Ann Thompson remembers her time working @harrispreston in the late 1950s:

“The Second World War influenced family life in many ways, not least economically, in the dearth and poor quality of toys, games and books.  As the eldest of three children, born and brought up in Preston, I was already a bookworm before I started school, reading everything I could lay hands on. Birthday and Christmas presents provided plenty of reading matter; I read and re-read my books until they fell apart!

Our parents were hard-working but not wealthy and my Father, largely self-educated, knew the importance of the public library service. When I was six years old, he took me by bus one Saturday and we entered the magnificent Harris building. Awestruck, I crept after him, through the entrance hall, round the rotunda and into the Children’s Library.  Wonderland!  Mahogany shelves filled with books lined the walls, there were tables and chairs to sit at and a smiling librarian, who organised my application form then allowed me to choose two books to take home.  I did not need the allotted two weeks to read them;   I returned the next Saturday for two more and that became my weekly routine until I moved to the Park School at eleven years old.  I soon announced to my family, friends and the library staff that I wanted to work there when I was old enough and that remained my aim as I studied hard throughout schooldays.

Over time, I explored the other parts of the Harris, often with my maternal grandmother, who likened some of the ceramics and glass treasures to items in her sideboard cupboard,  and occasionally took me up the majestic staircase to admire the Pedder dolls’ house which fascinated me (still on display in Discover Preston).  One of my uncles made a smaller version for me but it never remotely resembled the one in the Harris, although I treasure it still.

The Headmistress of The Park School, Miss Shanks, often invited local employers to talk to Fifth Year students about potential careers.  When Miss Jane Downton, the Borough Librarian, came into school, she was already aware of my ambition so she and Miss Shanks gave me lots of advice about my future. Unfortunately, their opinions differed and I chose to take A-Levels, then enter the library service directly, instead of going to university, and I studied part time for my professional qualifications.

What a privilege it was, to enter the Harris building every working day, to become familiar with the various departments, including the Reference Library, via the spiral staircase from the staff room!  In my lunch hour, I often explored the Art Gallery and the Museum, too, with their ever-changing exhibitions.  I felt very proud to announce my place of work to former school friends and many of them visited me during their vacations, as “The Harris” was a central hub.

After basic training at Ribbleton Branch Library and in the workroom and accessions department, I became the junior assistant in the Children’s Library, - my dream had come true!  Mrs Gillespie resigned soon after I started and Miss Waite, her successor, became my great encourager, allowing me to help her with Wednesday afternoon Story Hours, when up to 50 schoolchildren visited from 4.00 till 5.00 p.m. “The Children’s Library Magazine”, illustrated and edited by the staff and published, in-house, each term, carried book reviews and occasional letters from famous authors, but it was mostly a vehicle for the literary efforts of Preston schoolchildren.

The department was transformed each autumn for the “Annual  Book Exhibition”, which attracted many well-known literary figures and publishers, not just the official “opener”.   We created huge displays for the walls, based on different themes, to draw attention to the many new books available in the library.  This continued throughout the year, on a smaller scale, thus giving me opportunities to try my artistic skills, too.

Here’s Ann in more recent times!

One year, I was on duty at lunchtime, before the official party arrived at 2.00 p.m.  I had been ordered to allow no-one in unless for children’s library books, which were sectioned off in one corner.  A very tall, distinguished gentleman approached and asked for permission to view the exhibition immediately, as a special favour.  When I demurred, he confessed that he had been invited to give the official opening address and, in a conspiratorial way, begged for a secret preview.  I had been charmed by the publisher, Rupert Hart Davis, himself, so, of course, I allowed him in!  

After the happiest four years of my life, family circumstances forced me to resign and, for several years after that, I could not bear to enter the Harris building at all.  I married and my husband and I shared a love of good books which influenced our son from an early age.  Once again, Saturday afternoons included a trip to the local branch library, where Peter, even as a two year old, would sit at the small book troughs to choose his own bedtime stories.  In due course, I helped him to discover the delights of the Harris Library, Museum and Art Gallery.

In 2017, it would appear that a personal long-held dream may be coming true, as discussions take place concerning the feasibility of amalgamating the Art Gallery, Museum and Library services.  Surely, this will benefit all three and add greatly to the public’s usage and appreciation of the magnificent building known affectionately as “The Harris”.

Ann Thompson