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.
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17. Twelve members of the Moor Lane Day Centre, Preston, were helped by Framework Theatre to put on a concert called The Good Old Cabaret, which they performed at the Garden Room, Sharoe Green Hospital, for geriatric patients
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18. Revellers ring in the New Year on Preston Flag Market - recognise anyone?
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19. Preston North End protest in February 1990 - later than the sit down protest at PNE v Bristol Rovers
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20. Mr Bill Hall found a dog after thieves broke into his pet shop in Fishergate Hill, Preston
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