In pictures: A step back in time to Powys life in the 1980s

Today we venture back to the 1980s to offer some pictures from the past.

Remember to share your own pictures from the past by emailing gavin.grosvenor@newsquest.co.uk today and let us celebrate Powys’ amazing past together.

We begin with a picture of Hollywood actress Julie Christie pictured at an anti-nuclear protest in Montgomery in 1980 where she lived for a time during the decade.

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We share a picture of Kerry Primary School pupils in 1980. Recognise any familiar faces?

NHS staff during a protest over low wages in Newtown in 1982. If ever a picture shows how little has changed over the past four decades in Britain perhaps it is this one.

Our final picture shows a scene from the Powys Eisteddfod held in Welshpool in 1983.