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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41. Holy Cross High School netball team got in some useful practice for their big test in two months time when the finished runners-up in the Schools Knockout Tournament the Guild Hall in Preston. Chorley's Holy Cross were beaten 6-5 in the final by Blackburn's Billinge High School, who won the tournament last year
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42. Roger Duckworth, of Moor Nook, Preston, is a fast draw specialist - and in just seven weeks has snatched a national record for his speedy shot. He shattered the old national record of .23 of a second, which had stood for over two years, by firing in .22 of a second
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44. Sabana Khan is 13-year-old and lives in Saudabad Colony, Karachi, Pakistan. She is one of the lucky ones for she is sponsored by nursery nursing students at the WR Tuson College, Preston. And those students got together for a sponsored swim to raise money for Save the Children - to help more children like Sabana
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