Tributes pour in for Prestons’ chairman

Prestons began as a agricultural contracting business in 1936.
Richard Preston with his wife Anne.Richard Preston with his wife Anne.
Richard Preston with his wife Anne.

But due to the diesel shortage during the Suez crisis, it became a haulage firm.

Despite this change, Mr Preston never lost touch with his farming roots buying the village farm at Hutton Rudby in the 1970s.

Mrs Preston said: “He never lost that love.”

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