While it can be hard to grasp at the time when you’re caught in a whirlwind of homework, teenage angst, petty drama, and an irrational hatred for physics lessons, your schooldays truly are some of the very best of your life - a time when you’re constantly hanging out with friends, having fun, and learning the lessons of life together.
With that in mind, we’ve put together a bumper collection of over 60 pics of Preston pupils at school back in the 1980s and 1990s. Take a look...
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53. Teenager Fiona Haworth often finds herself the centre of attraction with the lads... especially when it comes to making a splash in the swimming world. Fiona, 13, is the only girl in Lancashire playing competitive water polo. Fiona, of Factory Lane, Penwortham, stepped into the Preston Piranha under-16 side in an emergency, but is now a regular
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54. Showbiz star Bonnie Langford gave youngsters an impromptu demonstration of her stage routine at a Lancashire school. Bonnie took time off from rehearsals for the Pirates of Penzance in Manchester to hand over the keys to a new minibus for the 58-pupil Coppice School, Bamber Bridge, Preston. While she was there she also presented swimming awards to the children and stayed for lunch
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55. Head of PE at Brownedge St Mary's High in Bamber Bridge, near Preston, Geoff Snailham, is organising a trip for himself and nine fifth formers to take a cycling trek to London. The trip is to commemorate 25 years of Catholic schooling at Brownedge
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56. The headmaster of Preston's largest primary school was sent on his way to retirement by a crowd of friendly faces. All 374 children at St Andrew's CofE school gathered in the school hall to say goodbye to Mr John Jelf. And to cpmplete the occasion, three of the head's own children were there too
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