43K views · 116 reactions | #OnThisDay 1983: Santa was “steaming of a White Christmas” as he opted to set up his grotto on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. | BBC Archive | Facebook

46K views · 171 reactions | #OnThisDay 1983: The winning designs for a knitted jumper competition were on show on ‘Breakfast.’ For more cutting-edge archive fashion, you can visit - https://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/fashion/zvss7nb | BBC Archive | Facebook

14 reactions · 6 comments | End of The Waltons on BBC2 before John Stapleton has the BBC2 News on Budget day 1983. Listen to the numbers | TVARK | Facebook

152K views · 1.2K reactions | #OnThisDay 1983: Wearing a seatbelt became compulsory for drivers and front seat passengers in the UK. BBC News checked to see how some commuters were complying with the new law. | BBC Archive | Facebook

#OnThisDay 1983: Professor Michael French demonstrated how engineering principles could be applied to nature with his prototype model of a four-winged swan! | BBC Archive

32K views · 150 reactions | #OnThisDay 1983: Esports came to breakfast television, in the form of the Breakfast Time Video Games Championship. | BBC Archive | Facebook

120K views · 769 reactions | #OnThisDay1983: Ready to get fit, 80s style? BBC Breakfast had a live workout from a farm in Jersey which would strengthen your back if you managed to avoid being trampled on by the nearby grazing cows! | BBC Archive | Facebook

#OnThisDay 1983: ZZ Top were on tour in the UK where ‘Breakfast’ spoke to the band and some of their devoted fans. | BBC Archive