WHO remembers this old local, the New Market Hotel in Burnley seen here before it was pulled down for redevelopment?

It was in Market Street and built on the site of Swallow Hall, the residence of William Crook in the late 18th century.

With the rapid development of Burnley from around the Top o’ th’ Town area near St Peters’ Church to the area which we consider to be the town centre today, Swallow Hall became a licensed house — just one of hundreds springing up at this time.

Tom Howard was the pub landlord back in 1850, but before his time a music hall had already been added to the place, but it was gutted in a fire in 1888.

To entice more customers a pint of ale was included in the admittance price to the entertainment.

At the time this picture was taken at the start of the First World War, the landlord was J. W. Brown.

Others have included John Clarke just after the Second World War, and Eric Broadbelt in 1953. The hotel was demolished in 1962.

Other places around here at that time were the Yankee Bar near the bottom of Standish Street, popular with the teens, as was Pollard’s music store on Market Street.

Historian Jack Nadin said: “As kids we would all go around to the front of Pollard’s each Saturday night where the management put all the wind up gramophones outside taken in part exchange.

Even the records were thrown out.

“We would grab a machine and sit under the canvas market stalls listening to wind up music until the local bobby came along and chased us off.”