Born in 1985

£1 in 1985 would be worth approximately £3.80 in today's money.

A selection from Wikipedia's '1985 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.

• 19 February – EastEnders, the BBC One soap opera set in the fictional London Borough of Walford, debuts.
• 13 May – The Dire Straits album Brothers in Arms is released; it becomes the first compact disc to sell over 1,000,000 copies.
• 1 June – Battle of the Beanfield, Britain's largest mass arrest and the effective end of Stonehenge Free Festivals.
• 13 July – Live Aid pop concerts in London and Philadelphia raise over £50,000,000 for famine relief in Ethiopia.
• 24 July – Country code top-level domain.uk registered.
• 6 September – The Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre opens in Glasgow.
• 1 November – Aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is commissioned by the Queen Mother.
• 15 November – Anglo-Irish Agreement signed at Hillsborough Castle. Treasury Minister Ian Gow resigns in protest at the deal.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

• Teddy Ruxpin
• Transformers
• Care Bears