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City of Preston The industrial town of Preston, on the river Ribble in North West England, is now the administrative centre for the county of Lancashire. It forms the greater part of the local government district now known as the City of Preston (population approximately 150,000), having been granted city status in 2002, becoming England's 50th city in the 50th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. The present boundaries date from 1974, when the then county borough of Preston merged with adjoining areas to form the local government district within the county of Lancashire. Preston had been granted county borough status in 1889, having been a municipal borough since 1836.
The Jewish Community Although there are records of Jews in Preston from the early nineteenth century, the Jewish community developed in the town towards the end of the nineteenth century and reached its peak by the end of World War II. Thereafter it began to decline and the synagogue (congregation details below) closed in the 1980s. The principal work on the Jewish community in Preston is Furriers, Glaziers, Doctors and Others – a history of the Preston Jewish community (2009-2015) by John Cowell (which we refer to here as "Cowell's Preston History") and is available online and may be downloaded (see below). In 2014, the Lancashire and Cumbria Liberal Jewish Congregation was formed, which frequently holds services in Preston.
Research and formatting by David Shulman
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