Preston in 1980: Britain's recession and Olympic glory

The Post are turning back the clock with a new photographic series revisiting Preston throughout the 1980s, one year at a time. From the everyday to the extraordinary, our archive pictures capture the people, places and moments that made the decade. We begin with 1980.

It was the year Margaret Thatcher's government grappled with recession and rising unemployment, steelworkers went on strike and the SAS stormed the Iranian Embassy. Britain celebrated Olympic gold for Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett, while the murder of John Lennon shocked the world.

But what was happening closer to home? This was Preston in 1980...

25. Gone but not forgotten...

The popular Theatre Hotel next to the ABC in Fishergate in 1980 | Contributed

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Preston in 1980: Britain's recession, floods and Olympic glory

The Post are turning back the clock with a new photographic series revisiting Preston throughout the 1980s, one year at a time. From the everyday to the extraordinary, our archive pictures capture the people, places and moments that made the decade. We begin with 1980.

25. Gone but not forgotten...

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