WELCOME to our midweek bygones as we take Tizer readers back in time to 1982.

Once again it was a troubled time in the country with unemployment recorded at over 3,000,000 people for the first time since the 1930s while an Argentine scrap metal dealer raises the Argentine flag in South Georgia, Falkland Islands – a British overseas colony.

This would soon spark the Falklands War.

In the same year Israeli ambassador to the UK Shlomo Argov is shot in London, an event which provoked the 1982 Lebanon War.

It was not all bad news however and the The European Court of Justice ruled that schools in Britain could not allow corporal punishment against the wishes of parents.

The fourth terrestrial television channel, Channel 4, began broadcasting, the first programme being broadcast was the game show Countdown, hosted by Richard Whiteley.

Another flagship programme was Liverpool-based soap opera Brookside.

Meanwhile life in Oswestry, north Shropshire and the Welsh border counties continued as ever.

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Border Counties Advertizer: Four Crosses Rangers off to France 1982.

Four Crosses Rangers off to France in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Oswestry Ladies darts Presentation 1982

Oswestry Ladies Darts League presentation night in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer:  Chirk prep school 1982

 Chirk School in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Children taking part in Oswestry Christmas Parade 1982

Children taking part in Oswestry Christmas Parade in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Life savers awards at the Leisure centre 1982

Life savers awards at Oswestry Leisure Centre in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Criftin's School, Ellesmere 1982

Criftin's School in Ellesmere in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Llansanffraid School 1982

Llansantffraid School pupils in 1982.

Border Counties Advertizer: Oswestry Junior School Quiz Team 1982.

Oswestry Junior School quiz team in 1982.