PLUG in the flex capacitor as the Tizer takes you all the way back in time to 1985 - the year the first mobile phone calls in the UK were made.

The UK Miners' Strike, involving at its peak 142,000 mineworkers, ended after one year.

EastEnders, the BBC1 soap opera set in the fictional London Borough of Walford, debuted on TV while the Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms is released and became the first compact disc to sell over 1,000,000 copies.

Everton, who already clinched their first Football League title for 15 years, won the European Cup Winners' Cup, their first European trophy, with a 3-1 win over Rapid Vienna in Rotterdam.

The Football Association banned all English football clubs from playing in Europe until further notice in response to the Heysel riots.

Controversial Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher cemented her reputation among a generation of football club fans after supporting the ban and calling on judges to hand out stiffer sentences to convicted football hooligans.

Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raised over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia.

Meanwhile a joint French-American expedition locates the wreck of the RMS Titanic in the North Atlantic.

Life in Oswestry and the Welsh borders continued as ever. Recognise any familiar faces? Tag them and let them know.

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Drama Group Party at the Orthopaedic hospital
1985

A drama group party at the orthopaedic hospital in 1985.

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Presentation to to Nora Evans from the Telephone exchange on her retirement
1985

Presentation to to Nora Evans from the Telephone Exchange on her retirement in
1985.

Border Counties Advertizer: St Oswald's Choir Dinner 1985

St Oswald's Choir Dinner in 1985.

Border Counties Advertizer: Marathon pool and darts at the RAOB club 1985

Marathon pool and darts at the RAOB club in 1985.

Border Counties Advertizer: Carreg Llwyd playgroup party 1985.

Carreg Llwyd playgroup party in 1985.

Border Counties Advertizer:  Glyn Ceiriog School bank 1985.

 Glyn Ceiriog School bank in 1985.

Border Counties Advertizer: Woodside School Party 1985.

Woodside School party in 1985.

Border Counties Advertizer: Pant WI dinner 1985.

Pant WI dinner in 1985.