And sure, while at the time everyone was busy telling you to enjoy your schooldays and that it was the best time of your life, we were all far too focused on how unjust homework was, teenage drama, and the paramount importance of exams to really savour those times.
But now you can take a trip back in time and reminisce with the benefit of hindsight.
Still fancy a bot more nostalgia or a few other trips down memory lane? Be sure not to miss some of our other recent retro picture collections...
49. Summertime blues have been given the old heave-ho - thousands of playful younsters can vouch for that. For they have been taking advantage of holiday play schemes at Lancashire leisure centres. Picture shows girls on the vault at Bamber Bridge Leisure Centre
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50. This crowd of Bamber Bridge children skipped school for an afternoon - and managed to raise £300 in the process. The children, all pupils of Bamber Bridge Methodist School, were raising cash for the British Heart Foundation, and took to the skipping rope to do it. They are pictured presenting their cash to Mr Colin Simpson of the British Heart Foundation
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51. Pupils of Brownedge Junior School, Bamber Bridge, with their cycling proficiency awards after a presentation by the Mayor of South Ribble, Coun. Jack Crossley
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52. Police have come to the aid of The Coppice School in Bamber Bridge, who were in need of a major cash boost. Preston bobbies donated a four foot stick of rock they won in a TV contest, which will be raffled to provide funds for a minibus. Chief Supt Ken Mackay, left, and PC Alan Corlett present headmistress Miss Janice Harrison with the jumbo-sized rock. On PC Corlett's left is his daughter Shelley
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