17 of Preston's oldest businesses still operating today - including Booth's and historic Winckley Square solicitors

And so here we’ve put together a list of some of the city’s very oldest business still trading to this day. In fact, every one of these companies can trace their roots back to a time before 1880, meaning that they are all at least 140 years old and have plenty of tales to tell.

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