IN St James Street there is a building that was erected in about 1770.

It stands almost opposite the Cross Keys Hotel and is currently a picture gallery.

The picture gallery was originally the Labour In Vain farmhouse and is the oldest standing building in the town centre.

In Calder Street the Christian Science Church was formerly the Pack Horse Inn.

In St James Street, by the corner of Cow Lane, another picture gallery was formerly a very popular ice cream cafe for much of the 20th century.

Underneath the building is one of the last remaining former cellar dwellings in Burnley. This cellar was last a home for people in about 1870.

Lodge House, near Cow Lane, was originally Newtown Cotton Spinning Mill.

The building was used as a cotton mill from about 1830 until 1886.

The mill chimney dates back to 1864.

Between about 1918 and about 1948 the former mill was used as a common lodging house.

The building has been called Lodge House since about 1990.

Whoever called the building Lodge House possibly did not realise that the building had once been used as a common lodging house.

Ever since the building was named Lodge House it has been used as offices.

The Oxfam shop in St James Street was originally a very popular fancy goods shop run by William Easton.

The building was erected in 1911, and was designed by the local architect Samuel Taylor.

Bootleggers Music Bar in Boot Way was a Baptist church from the time the building first opened in 1853 until it closed as a church in about 1992.

The building has been a pub since about 1998. It was previously unoccupied for a few years.

The Afterlife nightclub in Red Lion Street was Enon Baptist Church from the time that it first opened in 1852 until the building was closed as a church in 1989. The talented architect of the building was James Green, of Todmorden.

Other Burnley buildings he designed include the old market hall, which was demolished in 1966, and St Stephen's Church.

The Citizens Advice Bureau building on Parker Lane was the headquarters of a hay and straw dealing business run by Joseph Barker from about 1900 until about 1945.

On Standish Street, a music equipment shop was once a pub called the Derby Arms.

The pub closed in about 1958. Between 1996 and 1997 the building was a very popular second hand bookshop.

In Parker Lane the Barnaby Fudge confectioners shop was originally a butcher's shop which opened in 1849.

From about 1869 until 1886 the building was the Lifeboat Inn. In 1886 the pub's name was changed to the Marlborough Inn. The building was last a pub in 1906.

The clothes shop next door is a former pub that was called the Clough Springs Hotel.