Here are a few of our very best pictures from our archive from those heady years back in the early 1980s.
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37. A group of sales girls from Kendalls Fashions in St Georges Shopping Centre took turns in a wheelchair to be pushed around town - all in the name of charity. And with a little help from a couple of their children, they completed five miles and raised £108 for the adult centre for the physically handicapped in Deepdale Road, Preston
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38. Young invaders tookover the store at Owen Owens, Fishergate, Preston, to show of their own fashions. The junior fashion models were displaying the autumn range of clothes by Ladybird. Only instead of a catwalk they used the whole store as their stage - groups of them mixing and mingling with the shoppers
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39. Dancing queen Sheila Ganley is about to acheive a remarkable hat-trick at a Lancashire theatre. For the talented 21-year-old is preparing to tread the boards for the third time in the seven months since Blackpool's Grand Theatre re-opened. Sheila, of Preston Old Road, Blackpool, is busy rehearsing to play the lead role of Eliza Dolittle in My Fair Lady, following roles in Carousel and Royal Variety Show
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40. Hundreds of Lancashire schoolchildren braved wet weather to help keep the county's folk heritage alive by joining in the Preston Country Dance Festival. Children from 30 school in Preston, Chorley and South Ribble took part
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