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...
25. These youngsters are enjoying a party held to celebrate Preston Guild '92
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26. Town centre shoppers were treated to a colourful cavalcade as 450 children all dressed in costume snaked their way through Preston. The parade was the finale of the four-week play scheme organised by Preston Leisure Services and involved 11 sites throughout the town where children could go and take part in activities during school holidays
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27. Preston's dockland helped the town grow into a thriving centre of trade and it became a bustling port once again as scores of ocean-going vessels and river craft plied the water for the Guild Riversway Festival
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28. Eager youngsters from all over Lancashire queued up outside the Opera House in Blackpool hoping to tap their way into the smash hit musical 42nd Street. Among the large contingent of Preston dancers were Melanie Cross, 16, of Victoria Parade, Ashton; Kerry Chandler, 16, of St Andrew's Avenue, Ashton; Dawn Holner, 14, of Dodney Drive, Lea; Sarah Morris, 17, of Beacon Grove, Fulwood; Ruth Abram, 13, of St Catherine's Drive, Fulwood; Vicky Buller, 13, of Margaret Road, Penwortham; and Katy Lansom, 13 of Garstang Road, Fulwood
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