1985 was designated International Youth Year by the United Nations - and our pictures certainly support that!

In that month the US space shuttle Atlantis made her maiden flight, the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked in the Mediterranean and the first Nintendo console went on sale in the US.

Closer to home PC Keith Blakelock was stabbed to death in London while economists predicted that unemployment would stay above 3,000,000 for the rest of the decade.

In Huddersfield it was a different story as people from Huddersfield walked, ran, collected, played music and more.

Just take a look at our gallery above to see what Huddersfield was up to 30 years ago this month.