Featuring everything from a visit from Bing Crosby to a handful of less celebrity-tinged everyday happenings, it was quite the year, so check out our best archive pictures from that era.
25. Preston in 1977
A talking mouse, a king, two teenagers and seven missing lords on a flat earth combined together to make a funny and dramatic fantasy play, performed by students at St John Southworth School, Preston Photo: RETRO
26. Preston in 1977
Bing Crosby arrives at Preston railway station ahead of his sold-out concert at Preston Guild Hall on September 22, 1977 Photo: RETRO
27. Preston in 1977
The St Gregory's school netball team, winners of the Preston Primary Schools tournament. Front (left to right): Suzanne Ormsby, Louise Drake, Lesley Helm, Tracey Gallagher. Back: Julie Farnworth, Jane Allen, Bridgett Barrett, Janet Holker, Julia Connolly and Mrs Suzanne Parsons Photo: RETRO
28. Preston in 1977
One thousand Lancashire brownies and guides formed a vivid symbolic backcloth to the diamond jubilee celebrations of the guiding movement The 60 year celebrations at Preston North End's football ground marked the growth of the area's guiding movement from 500 members at the birth of 1917 to the present 13,000. About 8,000 guides, brownies and rangers were present. Pictured are some of the girls who took part in a Red Rose tableau Photo: RETRO