As I type this my daughter is composing a letter to send to the council, the letter is requesting something be put in place to help people cross the road safely outside our house.

Now if there's a road that needs a crossing, it's this one. At the back of our house there is junior school and a residential home for the elderly. Across the road from our house there is a parade of shops. 
   
 Our road is the B6230 which links the A6 London Way, to Chorley Road in Walton-le-Dale.  It is a major road that gets very busy, and despite it being a 30MPH limit, drivers feel the need to zoom down it at much faster speeds.  (I was stationary when I took this photo)



Approaching our road from the A6 London Way, does give you the impression that you're entering a country road, as the first 100 yards or so has farmland and woodland on either side. As you get to the bend it becomes evident just how residential this road really is. But does that stop the idiots speeding down this road, no it dosen't. Despite big 30MPH limit signs and a row of rumble strips to vibrate your car, drivers ignore the limit and put the lives of our children at risk.

We need a crossing, and I'm told that the residents held a protest on our road long before I moved here, and their protest made the LEP on April 28th 1997.

11 years lates and still nothing has been done.  Let's hope my daughter's letter has an effect this time, but I won't hold my breath as LCC are a joke.

For the past few months I've been filming my journeys around Preston whilst playing my favourite music on the car stereo. I put these videos on a website called YouTube, where people with internet can access and watch these videos. Here are a few examples, just click on the links below.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=oO8SicXm-Io

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rHX0DOZ6APk

I also started a group on YouTube, dedicated to Preston video footage, anyone can join and add their own videos, here is the link http://youtube.com/group/Preston Once there, you will even find footage of the 1972 Preston Guild and footage of the water art feature Appearing Rooms that was on display on Preston Flag Market earlier this year.

If you have internet and Preston video footage, please join Youtube and the Preston group, so you can share the clips with other Prestonians.

 

Has  the council's policy of general waste collection being bimonthly, been extended to litter bins around the town?



Nice touch placing the have some pride sticker over their own emblem.

I recently learnt of a new website that allows you to

Create personalized maps

Share them with your friends

Explore maps created by others

Connect and collaborate

It's called Wayfaring and it's cooool.

This Wayfairing business is similar to Google Earth, it's a map made of satelite images. There is a map set up by StoneRoberts from PRESTONFOUND , which has photos of Preston and surrounding areas attached to it through waypoints. The watpoint is the place where the photo was taken from, you click on the waypoint and the photograph opens. Try it out by looking HERE . You can join this wayfaring map and Prestonfound photo group which is hosted at Flickr.com, but you need a Yahoo ID for a Flickr account.

The art piece Appearing Rooms by Jeppe Hein that is currently on show at Preston Flag Market, has truly transformed the place. I've visited the piece at different times of day with my camera, and I don't recommend anyone going between 3.30pm & 4.30pm on a schoolday, it's mayhem! Anyway, I thought I'd share some of my pictures with you bloggers.






Hope you like.