And judging by these photos of kids at a variety of Preston high schools that sentiment certainly rings true. This collection of images are all from the 1990s and features schools like Our Lady’s High School, Tulketh High School and Longridge High School, amongst others. Are you in any of them? Let us know. READ MORE: More pictures of Preston high school teens. IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: The ugliest buildings in Preston – as suggested by you. MORE MEMORIES: Look back at life on Cheapside in Preston through the years
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Alex Jones, 12, and Carly Chippendale, 12, pupils from Tulketh High School, Preston, at work in the North West Water mobile visitor centre in 1999 Photo: Lindsey North
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Singin' the blues... Kathryn Brown, 12, left, and Abigail Bunn, 13, from Tulketh High School, Ingol, Preston, during their music class with Manchester musician Kenton Mann in 1998 Photo: John Hughes
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Children of the wasteland... (from left to right) Pamela Unsworth, Sarah Trinick, Louise Smith, Jenna Bath, Emily Barlow, Madeline Pike, Katie Lowe and Nichola Rostron, pupils at Broughton High School, near Preston, who are performing in 'My Mother Said I Never Should' by Charlotte Keatley in 1998 Photo: John Hughes
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Year 10 pupils from Priory High School in Penwortham, near Preston, from left, Emma Osborne, 14, Michelle Atkinson, 15 and Fallon Fell, 14, who are part of the team who have made celebrity chairs for when the school takes over Heathcoates Brassarie for a charity millennium event in 1999 Photo: Ian Robinson