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...
29. Shoppers in Preston were treated to a morris dancing display by a local troupe out on a recruitment drive. Youngsters from the Brytones, the Preston and Kirkham troupe, were in town to put on a routine and search out new talent
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30. A group of primary school newspaper reporters got the star treatment when they visited Preston's Charter Theatre. For one of the backstage areas they were able to see was the star's dressing room. The eight pupils of Frenchwood County Primary School, Preston, all write for the school's twice-termly newspaper and they will now feature their visit to the theatre
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31. Industrious pupils at Chorley's Southlands High School have been showing off their talents at an industry day held at the Clover Road school. Pupils (from left), Linda Perryn, 15, Daron Pickstock, 15, and Nicola Smith, 14, with products they made during their industry project
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32. Looking back Mayoress of chorley Mrs Kathryn Hodson meets winners (left) Gladys Winterburn and Ada Hacket (right) April 1992
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