As the famous saying goes, the only constant in life is change - with that in mind, take a look at some of our best retro archive pictures of life in Penwortham across the decades from 1970 to the late 1990s.
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21. A festive Humpty Dumpty is set to bring the house down and give audiences a cracking good time. He is starring in a home-grown panto performed by Preston Drama Club, and written, directed and musically adapted by John Turner, of Penwortham, near Preston. Pictured: Old King Cole (Ian Smith) is not happy with his fiddlers three, much to the amusement of the cast of Humpty Dumpty at Preston Playhouse
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22. A scout group came up with a gob-smaking idea to raise cash for charity. Members of the Air Scouts, based at Penwortham, near Preston, held a "suck-a-thon" and earned £117 for the Preston and North Lancashire Blind Welfare Society. They were sponsored to suck sweets without chewing - and the most determined suckers lasted for more than half an hour. Pictured are some of the super suckers
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23. Flipping heck! To cap it all, South Ribble's Club chief, Roger Farrington, wasn't prepared for a top award when he visited the 9th Penwortham St Leonard's Spitfire Cub Pack, who were preparing for Pancake Day. Pictured are Sixers Stuart Hunter, Noel Ackerman, Andrew Smith, Steven Harry and Andrew Crompton, having a laught at Mr Farrington's expense
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24. Penwortham children swept the board at the rally for young cyclists from the Longton and Penwortham areas. Here policemen talk to some of the competitors at the rally
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