A plaque in Christian Road, Preston - not far from the station - records;

Robert William Service 1874-1958
Poet of the Yukon and socialist
was born in a house near this site.

His father, also Robert Service, was a banker from Kilwinning, Scotland, who had been transferred to England.
He moved to Scotland at the age of five, living with his grandfather and three aunts
until his parents moved to Glasgow four years later and the family reunited.