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How Not to Sell a city

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 06:29pm on 22/12/2008 under
Based on a conversation with [livejournal.com profile] chilperic...

  • Preston has Europe's largest bus station.

  • Preston is England's newest city.

  • Preston is said to be the town on which Coketown was based in Dickens' Hard Times.

  • Preston has the tallest spire in England on a church which is not a cathederal.

  • The Preston Bypass was England's first motorway.


There. Don't you want to visit it now?
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