Readers’ letters: Memories of Preston’s Army Recruiting Office

Readers' letters: Memories of Preston's Army Recruiting Office

The Army Careers Offices, Fishergate, Preston, in 1981.Photograph by Beth Hayes and comes courtesy of the Preston Historical Society and Preston Digital Archive. I left school in Blackpool at the age of 15 in 1961.

Without telling my parents, I caught a train to Preston and walked up Fishergate to the Army Recruiting Office and joined the Scots Guards.

Of course I had to get permission from my parents but on September 10, I was at Pirbright Barracks doing my basic training.Roll on to 1967 and I found myself back at Fishergate on recruiting duties.On February 14, I attended a Scots […]

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