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Article: Park cannons take pride of place.
- Article from:
- Lancashire Evening Post (Preston, England)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2008
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Two fine-looking cannons have been put in a Preston park to commemorate the city's military history.
The two replica pieces have been installed in Avenham Park in place of the historic Crimean War weapons that once used to sit in the park.
Preston's original cannons were captured at Sebastopol, Russia, during the conflict of 1853 to 1856 and were donated in memory of Lancashire's soldiers who fought in the war.
They were scrapped in the 1960s but, as part of Preston Council's [pounds sterling]5m regeneration of Avenham and Miller Parks, experts at a firm called Lost Art have crafted replica cannons to re-establish the monuments in Avenham Walk.