These brilliant pictures will give you a feel for what things looked like back in those heady days with our best archive pictures of Preston in the mid-1970s.
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1. Irish eyes were smiling in Preston when a 20-strong party from Belfast enjoyed three days' respite from the bombings, shootings, army searches and fear of their homeland. "Operation Get-away-from-it-all" was organised by the minister of the Preston Central Methodist Church, Lune Street. Pictured are girls from the party of Belfast youngsters, from left to right: Iris Morrow, Ann Watters, Arlene Livingstone, Lena Rook and Eileen Moore
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2. The Ribbleton Hall Secondary school junior hockey team which won the junior Preston Schools Hockey Tournament competition, held at Penwortham Holme
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3. About 40 events made up Kirkham Grammar School sports day, with Preston house coming out top of the overall points total with 114, followed by Ashton house with 93 and Lytham house with 71. Pictured above are some of the competitors involved
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4. A week-long road safety exhibition had toured Preston primary schools to teach children the road code and sharpen their reactions. Graham Brown (10) tries the brake-reaction test when the exhibition visited Brookfield Primary School
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