THIS school photograph takes us back 70 years. It was lent to Looking Back by one of the pupils!

Jack Slater is now 81, but he remembers his time at CE Central, Blackburn, nicknamed 'Paris' with affection.

He attended the secondary school, which was on Dandy Walk close to the bus station, for three years before he went to work.

This picture was taken in his first year, when he was 11 and Jack is third from the left on the back row.

Mr Hargreaves was their form teacher and a strict disciplinarian, while the headmaster was a Mr Walker.

Although Jack remembers a lot of names from his schooldays, he cannot put them to the faces on this photo.