Take a look at some of our best archive pictures from Preston in that heady age...
1. Preston in 1987
School dinners were never like this! Pastry was flying and lips smacking at a very special geography lesson for 30 primary school children. This is the fun way to find out about Italy, tucking into a good pizza. The children, eight and nine-year-olds from class 7 at St Theresa's Primary School, Penwortham, had gone along to Angelo's pizza restaurant in Avenham Street, Preston, to see how real Italian pizzas are made - and what they taste like Photo: RETRO
2. Preston, 1987
Cannon Street, Preston. May 1987. Image kindly provided by Paul Swarbrick and Gillian Lawson of the Preston Historical Society | National World
3. Preston in 1987
Miss Evening Post helps launch the new Preston Zippy buses at Preston bus station. But who is the gentleman with her? Photo: RETRO
4. Preston in 1987
This team of gymnasts proved instoppable when they took on a town's best athletes. For the girls from Ashton High School in Preston leapt, rolled and twisted their way to four of the five titles in the town's school's gymnastic competition Photo: RETRO