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Beat the Blue Monday blues: Brighten your day with 19 heartwarming photos from the archives

Feeling the Blue Monday blues? Brighten your day with this gallery of archive pictures full of heart, fun, and good times.

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By Tania Taylor
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From a 1970s retirement knees-up to adorable baby animals, these snapshots from the Star’s archives are guaranteed to bring a smile.

We hope this collection of cheerful archive moments lifts your spirits and spreads a little joy today.

Millennium Shop 'n' Fun fortnight, Mander Centre, May 1985: 'A Punch and Judy show featured among the attractions as the festival kicked off...' Picture shows Rachel Ward, aged four, and her brother Stewart, aged six, from Bushbury.
May 1985 at the Mander Centre: Rachel, four, and Stewart, six, giggle their way through a punch and Judy show at Millennium Shop ‘n’ Fun fortnight.
Mischievous little rhinos! Baby rhinos enjoy some play time fun at West Midland Safari Park. Picture: Matthew Lissimore
Mischievous little rhinos! Baby rhinos enjoy some play time fun at West Midland Safari Park. Picture: Matthew Lissimore
75 years of S Jones Transport Group calls for fun! Clown Frankie Bailey delights five-year-old Gareth Warren at the family day in 1989.
75 years of S Jones Transport Group calls for fun! Clown Frankie Bailey delights five-year-old Gareth Warren at the family day in 1989.
Four nurses were retiring from Walsall Manor Hospital in 1975, here we see them practising a dance routine at their leaving party. The photograph shows (from left) Lillian Punter, Clara Plester, Ada Comley, Patience Till and Gartina Preece.
1975: Four Walsall Manor nurses swap scrubs for dance shoes at their leaving party! From left: Lillian Punter, Clara Plester, Ada Comley, Patience Till and Gartina Preece.
1977 summer fun at Longmynd Adventure Camp: Founder Bill Williams joins the boys in the action!
1977 summer fun at Longmynd Adventure Camp: Founder Bill Williams joins the boys in the action!