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PRESTON: Little Hoole, Longton, Much Hoole, Penwortham, Pl'eston, Rib bleton, Ribchester, Samlesbury, 'Valton-Ie-Dale, Whittingham, and Woodplumpton, which contained, in 1851, a population of 96,368 souls. It is divided into the six districts of Preston (east and west), Alston, Broughton, Longton, and Walton. There has been no new workhouse erected for this union, the five old ones being made to do duty in its stead. Their situations are Preston, 1Val ton, Penwortham, W oodplumpton, and Ribchester. The Preston workhouse occupies an airy and healthful situation in Deepdale road, a short dist,ance N.N.E. of the town, and a handsome erection, called" The Overseers' Buildings," was raised in 1848, at the corner of Saul-street and Lancaster-road, for the use of the officers of th& union. The guardians meet at the board-room here every Tuesday, at ten o'clock. Thomas Batty Addison, Esq., is chairman, and Thomas Birchall and Michael Satterthwaite, Esqrs., are vice chairmen; J oseph Thackeray, Esq., is clerk to the union and superintendent registrar. Among the Provident Institutions of Preston are many Friendly Societies, Lodges of Oddfellows, Foresters, Mechani.Js, Druids, Freemasons, the Catholic Brethren, Guilds, &0. The Sav'ing8~ Bank is also a provident institution, which affords a safe and bene cial investment for the savings of the humbler classes, and was first established at the National School here on the 11th of l"Iarch, 1816, but was removed to more convenient premises in Chapel street, in 1818. It now occupies a neat building in Lune-street, erected about seventeen years ago, but was removed to that street in 1830; and in 1852 possessed deposits, amounting to £170,298 4s.
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