MANY of us have opened the newspaper to find our regular pub, our favourite club has burnt down due to a horrendous fire.

Brave firefighters from across the decades have shared a common experience of putting out a fire at a grade-listed or iconic pubs and clubs.

On the left we can see firefighters battling with flames at the Rosegrove Unity Working Mens Club in 1973.

The bottom middle-left picture shows crews fighting a blaze at the former Corporation Park Hotel in 1980.

It was originally a three-storey building but fires brought it down to just two floors.

It closed in 1997 after one too-many fires saw it unfit to continue.

The 2001 Club, formerly known as the Dolphin Club, was devastated by a fire here in November 1973.

Not a bottle, glass or chair was left untouched by the scorching heat and thick black smoke that would have billowed out of the business.

The iconic King Georges Hall in Blackburn was also severely damaged by a fire in the early 1980s.

Speaking to the Lancashire Telegraph in 2011, technical manager Howard Alderson-Perkins said staff had to work throughout the night to clear the stage and seats.

The cause of the fire was not known at the time.