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...
62. Retro Skittleball Team from Kingsfold Primary School,Penwortham April 1977
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63. Kirkham Grammar School handed out a 56-0 thrashing to a touring team from Australia - Wesley College of Perth. Centre David Whittingham scored two of Kirkham's 11 tries. Kirkham's other try scorers were Damian Hatton (2), Jonty Collinson (2), Tom Moore, John Black, Bruce Craven, Tony Rasmussen and Philip Baines, who also kicked six conversions
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64. These young runners got the feeling of athletic glory... when they carried a mock Olympic torch to raise funds for the British Olympic squad. A team of 17 youngsters from Kirkham Grammar School braved howling winds to carry the flaming torch on a relay. The torch will then be passed on to pupils at Rossall School, Fleetwood, for the next stage in the round-Britain relay
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