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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13. A recent Government report stated that too many teenagers leave school without being able to write intelligble messages. The Evening Post put this group of fourth formers at Walton-le-Dale High School, near Preston, to the test - they had to write a letter to Miss Marilyn Smith, training officer in the personnel department at Preston Council. Pictured are some of the participants: Julie Caldwell, Louise Plumbley, Michael Potter, Julian Knowles, Jill Rigby, Timothy Worsley, Paul Marshall, Eleanor Thorpe and Ian Roberts
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14. These spring chicks are alive and pecking thanks to the tender loving care of this proud group of youngsters at a Preston school. Class three at Kingsfold Primary School, Penwortham, have spent the past few months keeping a watchful eye on the chicks as they incubated. And a competition to find a name for the first one into the world helped raise money for the school's chosen charity - Action Aid
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15. Holme Slack County Primary School won the Preston County Primary School's 5-a-side soccer championships, held at St Cuthbert Mayne. Pictured: (front from left) Adam Markland, Geoffrey Smithson, Stephen Harwood; (back) Edward Danson, Anthony Moss, Matthew Lee and Craig Moyton
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16. This group of enterprising youngsters could hold the key to Britain's industrual future. They form the youngest group of staff and executives at any Lancashire company and at Pioneer they really mean business. Pioneer is the Preston firm set up by the 16-year-olds at Fulwood High School under the Young Enterprise programme
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