Preston, Lancashire after 1948, Preston became home to a significant number of Asian and Caribbean Commonwealth immigrants, who mostly worked in the manufacturing industry. However, an economic decline hit the town once again in the 1970s, capped by the closure of the Courtaulds factory in 1979 (nearly 3,000 job losses) and the decline of the docks on the River Ribble, which finally closed in 1981. Mass unemployment was firmly back in Preston by the early 1980s, although it was now very much a national crisis due to the recession of that time. The rehousing of families from town centre slums to new
Lionel Preston aircraft finishes. He lived in Chiltern Road in Dunstable. He also wrote the book ""Sea And River Painters Of The Netherlands In The Seventeenth Century"". He married Emily Elizabeth Bryant. Lionel Preston Admiral Sir Lionel George Preston, KCB (27 September 1875 – 21 September 1971) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord. Lionel Preston was educated at Stubbington House School and joined the Royal Navy as a cadet aboard HMS "Britannia" in 1888. He was posted to the sloop HMS "Rosario" in March 1900, and took part in the response to the Boxer Rebellion