ACCRINGTON town centre has been undergoing some big changes in recent years, and to look back at the area more than 100 years ago it makes for a much different scene.

Pictured here is the Bull Bridge area of Accrington, around the bottom of Milnshaw Lane and the corner of Hyndburn Road, in 1906.

A popular site in this area at the time was the Ye Olde Black Bull pub, from which this spot took its name.

Many locals growing up would have had their first drink in the pub, before it was ultimately demolished in 1984.

Soon after the site would become home to the Accrington Arndale shopping centre and multi-storey car park which first opened its doors to thousands of shoppers in the late 1980s.

A pub was first recorded on this site in the early 16th century, when this was a crossing point on the River Hyndburn on the main road from Manchester to Whalley.

The inn was also the scene of the vestry meetings which ran the town before the organisation of modern-day local government.

The Ambulance Drill Hall on the left of the road was opening in 1905 by Boer War hero and founder of the Scout movement, Lord Baden-Powell.

That building was also demolished during the same era, and it was knocked down in 1986.