Full of lost luggage and lost souls

 

Here's a couple of short films about Preston.

The first is 56,000, about Preston Bus Station, by Andrew Wilson and Paul Adams. It's a lovely short film shot (or at east edited) in black and white, with enough pull-focus shots to satisfy the most lens-twiddling of camera addicts. It's a lovely visual record of ths bus station from last autumn, when it was under threat of demolition. Thankfully it has been listed and is safe – for the time being. Which reminds me a quote from Doctor Who.

'Don't you have things you hate?'

'I can't stand burnt toast. I loathe bus stations. Terrible places. Full of lost luggage and lost souls.'

And here, accompanied by the squelchiest and most exhausting of 70s funk soundtracks, is some wonky super-8 footage from 1969 of Preston, from St George's shopping centre to the still-under-construction bus station.