They all show what the people of Preston were getting up to during that year – from charity events to the Full Monty, choirs and the death of Diana Princess of Wales. Are you in any of the pictures? Or do you recognise anyone?
5. Preston in 1997
Brookfield County Primary School, Preston, presented £694 they had raised to Julie Gardner of Royal National Institute for Blind. The money will go towards talking books. In the picture are pupils Faizal Patel, aged nine, and Adam Masterson, aged six Photo: Godfrey Birtill
6. Preston in 1997
Peter Taylor from the Preston and North Lancashire Blind Welfare Society eventually smiled when the local police (left to right) Inspector Mark Tottman, community officer for the Kingsfold area Peter Rigby, and Sergeant Alan Roberts, from Penwortham Police Station, took the handcuffs off and presented him with a cheque for £550 raised at a 60s and 70s night Photo: Lindsey North
7. Preston in 1997
Some of the combined choir of the Rawstorne Singers and Preston Parish Church who took part in the Carols by Candlelight service, in association with the Lancashire Evening Post, held at Preston Parish Church of Saint John Photo: Ian Robinson
8. Preston in 1997
Girl's football trainer, Karen Phoenix (right) with Rebecca Rhodes and her friends at Lancashire Police Headquarters, Hutton, near Preston Photo: Kevin McGuinness