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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21. Move over Rudolph - Santa has decided it's a lot less bother with a hover. Father Christmas arrived at Newton Bluecoat CE Primary School, near Preston, aboard a hovercraft, and thrilled youngster with rides around the grounds
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24. Pupils in the lower classes at Middleforth CofE School in Penwortham, near Preston, employed brain power to raise over £1,000 for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Pictured: Susan Doley collects a cheqque from Rachel Abram, Stephanie Derbyshire and Ruth and Naomi Elliott
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