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.
See if you recognise any familiar faces or scenes..
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13. Big-hearted Alma overflows - with weight and generosity. For at 19-stone, Alma was given doctor's order to slim down. And she chose to unship her excess cargo in the swimming pool, and pay for a pile of local kids to splash around with her as well. Alma, of Ullswater Road, Preston is pictured with her water babies at Waverley Park baths
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14. "Sea Creatures" from Maria Goretti school have a quick rehearsal for the 30th annual music festival for Preston schools, outside Preston Guild Hall. They are (left to right) Judith Hardwick, Shirley Hesketh, Helen Walmsley, Ruth Yeulett, Nicola Marshall, Elizabeth Dunlop and Denise Bullen doing a cartwheel
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16. German Couples wedding takes place at Preston Register Office. June 1974
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