Three-D Modelling for Railways

These two buildings are stood next to each other on Fishergate, Preston. On the left was originally the Union Bank of Preston, with the Preston Bank on the Right. Fresh off the printer... The Union Bank of Preston was taken over by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Bank, who in turn were taken over by Martins Bank, who later, in the mid-sixties rebuilt the bank into what we see today. Just a few years later Martins Bank was taken over by Barclays. The Preston Bank Company was taken over by the Midland Bank. Midland was acquired by HSBC in 1992, and the bank adopted that name in 1999. HSBC moved to alternative premises - where the ABC Cinema used to be - and this site became a Sainsbury's Local. So now Preston has a supermarket that looks like a bank next to a bank that looks like a supermarket... Here is the finished model (apart from the windows!).

This could have been the first art deco building in Preston being built in 1922. It is an impressive building, but part of the appeal is that Woolworth was an iconic shop that is no longer around. I ended up doing the shop next door too, as it is very basic. Still to be painted, but looking good. After painting, but waiting for windows. Woolworths was an America company (now Foot Locker). Its first UK branch was in Liverpool, the second in Preston, on the corner of Guildhall Street (where Mountain Warehouse now is). In 1922 it located to a new building. It remained there until 2008, when the company ceased trading; between December 2008 and Jan 2009 over 800 stores closed across the UK. The premises are now used by Next. https://wooliesbuildings.wordpress.com/2018/04/09/preston-store-2/ Next door was Barclays Bank. I can find nothing about the origins of the building, but I guess sixties. The current Barclays was originally Martins Bank, and they merged in the late sixties, but both br...

 The ABC Cinema stood on Fishergate, where HSBC is today. The Theatre Royal stood on the site previously, and the side street is called Theatre Street. The Theatre building was the original cinema,. from 1929, with a purpose-built structure replacing it. Preston's first purpose built cinema was the Palladium on Church Street, in 1915, but most were built in the 1930s. The new building opened  on 14th March 1959 with Rex Harrison in "The Reluctant Debutante". It closed for a while in 1973, for a pub to be incorporated, the Painted Wagon, re-opening 6th May 1973, with reduced seating. It closed 11th September 1982, and was demolished in 1986, to make way for the Fishergate Shopping Centre. Here is my model of it, in low relief. I printed it as a single part, as it was in 1980, with the Painted Wagon at the side. The movie is on embossed characters - not sure if I would have been better using transfers, as I did with the rest. Posters are reduced from some I found ...