ONLY two of the scenes pictured would be familiar to anybody walking around Burnley centre back in 1960.

For the town’s central area changed dramatically during the sixties, seeing the old Market Hall and much of its surroundings swept away, to be replaced by the development seen in some of these photographs.

The pictures should stir some memories for our readers.

One of the shots shows the junction of St James’s Street and Parker Lane with pubs on each corner, the Boot Inn, now a Wetherspoons, and the White Lion, which is also still open. All the other buildings remain too.

We think that the photograph would have been taken in the 1980s.

In the shot of the roof of the Market Hall from 1976 there is, right, the Studio 123 cinema complex which we reported recently is being demolished.

The borough’s coat of arms is visible on the 1982 photograph of the corner of the Market Hall, with the Marks & Spencer store visible across Curzon Street.

Below the coat of arms is Walco, where people used to go to get their shoes.

One of the other pictures shows the staircase leading up to Burnley Market in the market which was used in the paper in 1979.

The staircase has been replaced and now been moved.

There’s an aerial shot of the River Brun where you can spot the former Keighley Green Social Club in the foreground, now demolished and replaced by the St Peter’s Health Centre.