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...
13. People's champion Steve Cram jogged into a Chorley school to help raise cash for children's charities. The former world record holder dropped into Southlands High School as part of a cross-Britain race to raise awareness for Children in Needs day
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14. Youngsters at a Lancashire primary school said a sad farewell to their deputy head teacher. Mrs Kathleen Munro (pictured above) has been teaching at Ingol Primary School in Preston since is opened 22 years ago
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15. Four gypsy couples tied the knot in a ceremony in Preston which lasted nearly an hour. The ceremony at St Walburges Church, was thought to be the first of its kind ever to be held in the town. Michael McCann and Kathleen Delaney; James Gavin and Margaret McCann; Frances Gavin and Barbara McCann; and Daniel McCann and Eileen Gavin were all married in the ceremony
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16. Keep-fit fanatics from two Preston health and beauty clubs are out to prove exercise is fit for all ages at an international fitness show at the Royal Albert Hall. The two groups pictured attend weekly exercise sessions run by instructor Carol Real at the Blessed Sacrament School hall, Farington Lane, Ribbleton and at St John's Parish Hall, Fulwood.
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