DO you remember life in Warrington in the eighties.

It was a time of change in the town.

New homes and Gullivers World were built.

Ikea even opened and Rick Astley was drawing the crowds at Mr Smiths. 

While royal visits and festivals made the headlines.

See what you remember from the 1980s below.

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Warrington Festival parade, complete with a fish market float

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Rick Astley at Smiths

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And the famous club at Christmas

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The roads around Bridge Foot were altered in the early eighties

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Thousands attended the opening of Ikea in 1987

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While Gullivers World opened in 1989

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Charles and Diana came in 1984 to huge crowds

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This is Croft Carnival in 1982

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Rylands was hit by a huge fire

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The former Golden Square and Legh Street multi storey

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