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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25. One thousand Lancashire brownies and guides formed a vivid symbolic backcloth to the diamond jubilee celebrations of the guiding movement The 60 year celebrations at Preston North End's football ground marked the growth of the area's guiding movement from 500 members at the birth of 1917 to the present 13,000. About 8,000 guides, brownies and rangers were present. Pictured are part of the large Chorley contingent who presented a moving tableau
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26. Veronica Merrifield makes merry with PC David Jackson on Emerson Road, as the Caribbean Carnival wended its way through the streets of Deepdale in Preston
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27. For the second successive year Kettering's Tony Kearns won the annual Milk Marathon - a 26-mile 385 yards long road race from Preston to Morecambe. Organised by Lancaster and Morecambe Athletic Club, the race is sponsored by Morecambe and Heysham Dairy Festival.
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28. Locals at the Ram's Head Hotel, Tarleton, near Preston, threw a mammoth 56,000 darts in a three-day game, all to raise money for Muscular Dystrophy. Picture shows Trevor Stringfellow and Steven Lathom taking their turn, watched by other members of the team (from left) Derek Howarth, Graeme Iddon, Graham Rimmer, Graham Cooper, George Tiffin, Kevin Rimmer (scorer)
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