TODAY we are transported back to 1890s Blackburn - this is how the town centre was more than 100 years ago.

It's a scene showing Salford, looking up Railway Road towards the railway station, where the age of the train had been on track for more than 50 years.

The busy junction was cobbled and, as there are no overhead power cables, the tramcar in the foreground was, more than likely, a steam vehicle, rather than horse drawn.

Run by Blackburn Corporations Tramways, it was pulling in to the Water Street, Salford Bridge terminus. Do you know where it had come from?

There are also two horse drawn buses, adding to the general sense of bustle, and a cart, loaded with sacks, making the turn into Railway Road, as well as numerous pedestrians, dodging in and out of the traffic.

Right in the centre, in front of the drinking fountain, with a gas lamp atop, is a local dignitary - maybe a mill owner or cotton trader - in his top hat and dress coat - standing with his equally well dressed wife.

On the corner of Church Street, the imposing White Bull Hotel, with its upstairs function rooms, would have been offering luncheon to its guests.