From fashion and culture to sport and global events, it was a famously busy time. And so, with that in mind, take a trip down memory lane and check out some of our very best retro archive pictures showing what life in Preston looked like back in the ‘70s...
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13. Students from the Marshall House business studies faculty of Preston Polytechnic held at charity disco at Scamps, Church Street, Preston. It was all to raise money for the Burrow Bank children's home in Garstang Road, Fulwood
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14. The people of Preston gathered around the Flag Market and the town centre to witness the celebrations of Preston's Octo-centenary
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15. Boomtown Rats fans in Lancashire come up with their own heart-rending version of I Don't Like Mondays. The punks spent all night lying on cold floors, waiting from Preston Guild Hall's box office to open to get their hands on tickets for the band's concert in the town
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16. The Duke of Cambridge ladies darts team which won the league, doubles and individual titles in the Preston Lion and Allied Ladies Summer League
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