The ‘80s were a very different time. From the hairdos and the get-up to the lack of child safety while playing outdoors, parts of the era now only exist in memory.
We might be recycling certain aspects of the decade’s music and fashion trends today, with shows like Stranger Things giving the young-uns an appreciation for what their parents grew up with. Yet there are some things about the ‘80s that, for better or worse, we’ll never get back.
We decided to take a look back at some lost elements of the ‘80s specific to Northern Ireland . Take a walk down memory lane with us as we revisit the things you could do here at various stages of the ‘80s that you generally can’t do today.