From life without the internet and widespread mobile phone usage, to the lack of on-demand shopping services like Amazon, life in the early 1990s was, quite simply, a simpler time.
It was a time when most people only got a handful of channels on the TV, when community was undoubtedly a bigger part of people’s lives, when communal spaces like pubs reigned supreme in the majority of people’s social lives, and when the England cricket team were truly terrible.
For lost of people, it’s also a powerfully nostalgic time, so why not take a trip down memory lane...
These pictures will have you saying ‘I’d give anything to go back’ in no time, so here are some of our best retro archive pictures of Preston and Chorley life and people from the early 1990s.
Got a bit more time for day-dreaming? Check out some of our other recent nostalgia picture collections...
9. Lancashire's Gulf war heroes touched down at Manchester Airport to emotional scenes as their loved ones gathered to welcome them home. More than 100 soldiers frrom the 14/20 King's Hussars, based at Fulwood, Preston were greeted with cheers and songs from family and friends.
National World
10. Members of the 1st Broughton troop of beavers and cubs joined councillors Audrey Scorr, Liz Clarkson and Jack Heatley in a bid to get rid of litter in the Sharoe Green area of Preston. They started their drive, armed with brushes and pans, near Booth's supermarket in Sharoe Green Lane
National World
11. Winners of Preston and district cubs first aid competition, from the left, Daniel Cuerden, David Cross, Christopher Dorning, David Higgins and David Middlemiss
National World
12. Six teenagers from South Ribble have made cassettes and video tapes of themselves to place in a time capsule for Preston Guild 1992. It will be kept unopened at Preston's Harris Museum until Friday, November 26, 2012
National World