25 retro pics of old school Penwortham from 1986 to 1990, including schools, footballers, and Captain Pugwash
By Jack Marshall
Published 29th Aug 2023, 10:34 BST
Updated 29th Aug 2023, 10:35 BST
Cast your mind back...
… to the mid-1980s in Penwortham. The ‘80s is in full swing and the ‘90s is looming on the horizon, so take a look at our best archive pictures of life in the era in Penwortham...
A festive Humpty Dumpty is set to bring the house down and give audiences a cracking good time. He is starring in a home-grown panto performed by Preston Drama Club, and written, directed and musically adapted by John Turner, of Penwortham, near Preston. Pictured: Old King Cole (Ian Smith) is not happy with his fiddlers three, much to the amusement of the cast of Humpty Dumpty at Preston Playhouse Photo: RETRO
This team of gymnasts proved instoppable when they took on a town's best athletes. For the girls from Ashton High School in Preston leapt, rolled and twisted their way to four of the five titles in the town's school's gymnastic competition Photo: RETRO
These boys from Penwortham Priory High School are off to Belgium on an eight-day footballing tour. Forty of them, all under 15, along with three staff, are hoping to polish up the good name of English football in the country that suffered the Heysel tragedy. They will play ten games against Belgian school and junior clubs Photo: RETRO