Conga line... these four youngsters find there's a safety - and fun - in numbers as they try their hand at roller skating at Fulwood Leisure Centreplaceholder image
Conga line... these four youngsters find there's a safety - and fun - in numbers as they try their hand at roller skating at Fulwood Leisure Centre

29 memorable pictures of people keeping fit in the 1980s in Preston

Claire Lark
By Claire Lark

Digital Journalist

Published 15th Dec 2025, 18:00 GMT

While the fitness craze that currently occupies such a prominent part of life is more of a recent phenomenon, people in the past certainly recognised the importance of working up a good sweat, too...

And so, with that in mind, take a trip down memory lane to the 1980s and check out our best archive pictures of Fulwood Leisure Centre back in that era.

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Ice skating instructor Richard Peck slips over on the synthetic ice rink laid down at Fulwood Leisure Centre - and takes the rest of the line down with him

5. 1980s Fulwood Leisure Centre

Ice skating instructor Richard Peck slips over on the synthetic ice rink laid down at Fulwood Leisure Centre - and takes the rest of the line down with him Photo: RETRO

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A play badminton session in progress at Fulwood Leisure Centre

6. 1980s Fulwood Leisure Centre

A play badminton session in progress at Fulwood Leisure Centre Photo: RETRO

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Instructor Richard Peck starts slipping at the end of the line on a specially-installed synthetic ice rink laid down for a day at Fulwood Leisure Centre in 1989

7. 1980s Fulwood Leisure Centre

Instructor Richard Peck starts slipping at the end of the line on a specially-installed synthetic ice rink laid down for a day at Fulwood Leisure Centre in 1989 Photo: RETRO

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Don Pye of Lowndes Street, Preston, has a football injury attended to by remedial gymnast Ann Drinkwater and physiotherapist Patricia Bartley (right) at the Preston Sports Injuries Clinic held at Fulwood Leisure Centre. At the time it was the first of its kind in the North West

8. 1980s Fulwood Leisure Centre

Don Pye of Lowndes Street, Preston, has a football injury attended to by remedial gymnast Ann Drinkwater and physiotherapist Patricia Bartley (right) at the Preston Sports Injuries Clinic held at Fulwood Leisure Centre. At the time it was the first of its kind in the North West Photo: RETRO

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