Nostalgia

Who from the '80s has had a profound influence on musicians of recent years, including Justin Timberlake, Gerard Way and Karen O?

11 musicians from the 1980s that helped shaped the charts today

Before the Battle of Britpop between Oasis and Blur, another distinctively British music feud occured years earlier between The Cure's Robert Smith and Morrissey.

What led to the feud between The Cure's Robert Smith and Morrissey?

Dr Pinball Mark Squires at his home in Swavesey, Cambridgeshire where he fixes and restores pinball machines.

I've fixed over 500 retro gaming machines...I get called 'Dr Pinball'

David Madden (inset) was interviewed for a new documentary about the Freckleton Air Disaster, where he watched most of his classmates get killed 80 years ago.

'I ran through a burning doorway as my classmates got killed'

Ocean Colour Scene have announced a UK wide tour to commence March 2025.

Ocean Colour Scene announce extensive UK tour for 2025

Nik Kershaw has announced a series of UK tour dates to close out 2024 with - here’s how you can get tickets to his number of shows later this year.

Where is ‘80s star Nik Kershaw performing on his 2024 UK tour?

(Photos: John Lewis)

John Lewis teases 2024 Christmas advert with first look

Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return for "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice," out in cinemas this weekend. But what happened to the rest of the original cast after it's release?

The cast of "Beetlejuice" then and now, as the sequel opens in cinemas

We made mocktails using the SodaStream Art and it was so much fun!

SodaStream Art brought back happy memories of my 80s childhood

John Junior with The Sugar Free Polo Mints (green and white) from 1997 and a modern day packet of Sugar Free Polo Mints.

'Still minty fresh': I found a 27-year-old pack of Polos in a drawer

(Right, top to bottom) The Prodigy, Right Said Fred and Metallica all had chart success, but not enough to topple the 16 weeks Bryan Adams (left) spent at the top of the UK singles chart. Who else did the singer hold off during his reign? (Getty Images)

What songs did Bryan Adams keep off the top spot for 16 weeks?

The 7 most nostalgic school dinner classics that you’ll remember if you grew up in the 1990s.

The 7 school dinner classics you'll remember if you grow up in the 90s

T'Pau, pictured here in 1988, are set to tour the UK in late 2024, with the majority of their dates in support of The Human League's "Generations" tour. (Credit: Dave Hogan/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Iconic ‘80s pop act announce comeback with major UK tour

Cadbury are bringing back a popular chocolate treat just in time for Christmas.

Cadbury to relaunch popular 1990s chocolate bar in the UK

These are the top 10 nostalgic sweet treats of the nation

Will Young has a big 2024 planned (Photo: Jamie Noise 2024)

Will Young on new album and missing his dogs as he announces huge tour

He’s had a career lasting over two decades - and Will Young is far from done

Patrick Hollis

Former pop star presents the top 15 flashbacks in fashion

The one-bedroom luxury apartment in the former headquarters of Cadbury's in Bournville Lane, Birmingham, is on the market for 145,000

Cadbury brings back fan-favourite chocolate after nearly 10 years

Top 9 celebrity perfumes to make you feel nostalgic

Superb images, like this aerial view captured from the top of St John’s Church circa 1910-15, can help us appreciate how life was in Peterborough 100+ years ago (image: Peterborough Images Archives)

Archive images show how Peterborough looked at the turn of the 20th century

S Club 7 pictured in 2014 - (L-R) Bradley McIntosh, Tina Barrett, Jo O’Meara, Hannah Spearitt, Paul Cattermole, Rachel Stevens and Jon Lee. (Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images)

S Club 7 confirm 2023 reunion tour on BBC’s The One Show

Pathe archive footage of Sheffield Wednesday versus Peterborough United in the FA Cup in 1960.

Nostalgia: Vintage footage of Peterborough United in the 60s

Rarely seen footage of Peterborough regatta is in the Pathe news archive.

Nostalgia: Rarely seen footage of film star at Peterborough’s regatta in the 40s

Meeting the a Womble in the 80s.

Nostalgia: The day Wombles came to Peterborough

Was everything better in 'the good old days'?

Opinion: ‘Nostalgia is a sweet liar’

Queensgate in the 80s by Chris Porsz.

Nostalgia: Can you help name the faces in these pictures?

Old Fletton police table tennis team

Nostalgia: Peterborough sporting teams through the years from Posh to Pirates

This week Looking Back focuses on some of the city’s sporting teams - both amateur and professional.

Nigel Thornton

Spicy spam fritters with chips and egg.

A slice of nostalgia in a tin.... spicy spam fitters

The Orton Centre

NOSTALGIA: The formation of The Ortons - Allegros, art and the Cheeky Girls

41 of Bill Bailey's most gleefully funny jokes and one-liners

The Peterborough floods of 1998

NOSTALGIA: Easter floody hell in Peterborough

War time nurses in Peterborough

NOSTALGIA: Hospital heroes from Peterborough's past

Peterborough And District Memorial Hospital

NOSTALGIA: A look back at some of Peterborough's 33 hospitals through the years

The Bull and Dolphin, now part of Rivergate

NOSTALGIA: Peterborough's lost pubs - raising a glass to absent friends!

Part of Fletton Parkway under construction?

Nostalgia in pictures: Peterborough under construction - do you recognise these ...

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NOSTALGIA: Peterborough's farming, fishing and boating past

First to get their keys from the Mayor of Peterborough Alderman Ted Hall, were Mr and Mrs Michael Mulhern, from Islington

NOSTALGIA: Building a bright new city future for Peterborough

Do you recognise any of these faces?

NOSTALGIA: A history of Peterborough's park life

Great Northern Cottages, Peterborough

NOSTALGIA: Home, not so sweet home, in Peterborough?

A Fowler & Sons

NOSTALGIA: A Peterborough family dynasty

Duke of Kent at Perkins engines 1987

NOSTALGIA: Perkins '“ Peterborough's engine through the years

1912 Crescent Bridge taking shape

NOSTALGIA: Peterborough's Crescent Bridge spanning the ages

Peterborough's River Nene

NOSTALGIA: Is that a monkey on Peterborough's riverbank?

Charly says...

Nostalgia: Five British public safety videos which scarred us as children

A Northamptonshire yeomanry 1915 by Peterborough Station

NOSTALGIA: Remembering Peterborough's war heroes

St John's Church, Stanground

NOSTALGIA: Can you fill in the historical gaps in these Peterborough photos?

1900s Central Park bandstand

NOSTALGIA: Peterborough's gone but not forgotten structures

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NOSTALGIA: A look back at Peterborough on parade

Looking back with Nigel

NOSTALGIA: Time please to celebrate Peterborough's old pubs

Henry the Train

NOSTALGIA: A look back at Nene Park '“ the jewel in Peterborough's crown

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NOSTALGIA: Smiles better in the last century Peterborough?

Looking Back

NOSTALGIA: Golden age of the silver screen in Peterborough

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NOSTALGIA: Sausages and riots, one Peterborough family's story

Peterborough Corn Exchange by St John's Church

NOSTALGIA: A reminder that less can be more - Peterborough Corn Exchange

NOSTALGIA: Can you spot the Peterborough landmarks?