Photos from the Lancashire Telegraph archive from June 2001.

Burnley riots
  • Saturday: Police checking cars at Duke Bar.
  • Sunday: The clean up of broken windows caused by rampaging youths in Burnley on Saturday night is filmed by TV
  • Sunday: Police block off Briercliffe Road, Burnley.
  • Sunday: Firefighters tackle a blaze in a shop and car.
  • Sunday: Police block off roads around the Duke bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters in Oxford Road.
  • Sunday: Firefighters in Oxford Road.
  • Sunday: Firefighters in Oxford Road.
  • Sunday: A taxi driver watches as a car is burnt out on Colne Road, Burnley.
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke Bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: A car is turned on its side on is burnt out on Colne Road, Burnley close to Duke Bar
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke Bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke Bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: Police in riot gear work with firefighters to put out a blaze on Oxford Road, Burnley.
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke bar area of Burnley.
  • Sunday: Riot police block off roads around the Duke Bar area of Burnley.
  • Saturday: Police checking cars at Duke Bar.
  • Saturday: Police checking cars at Duke Bar.
  • Saturday: Broken windows at the Duke of York pub
  • Saturday: Broken windows at the Duke of York pub
  • Sunday: Firefighters put out a blaze in Oxford Road, Burnley.
  • Sunday: The Duke of York Pub is set ablaze in the Duke Bar area
  • Sunday: Firefighters at the Duke of York
  • Sunday: Firefighters in action.
  • Sunday: A car explodes after two vehicles were set a blaze on Colne Road, Burnley.
  • Sunday: Some of the broken windows caused by rampaging youths in Burnley on Saturday night
  • Monday: Dorothy Hodgson (County Staff Officer) and Tim Bates (Cadet Sergeant) in the St John Ambulance Offices, Duke bar, Burnley, as they begin the clean-up operation after bricks were hurled through the windows.
  • Sunday: Firefighters in action.
  • Sunday: Firefighters in action.
  • Sunday: Firefighters in action.
  • Monday: The burnt-out Duke of York
  • Monday: A burnt and looted grocery shop after a night of riots in Burnley
  • Monday: A gutted shop in the aftermath of the Sunday night riot in Oxford Road, Burnley as life goes on
  • Monday: A gutted shop in the aftermath of the Sunday night riot in Oxford Road, Burnley as life goes on
  • Monday: A gutted shop in the aftermath of the Sunday night riot in Oxford Road, Burnley as life goes on
  • Monday: Hamaun Safaraz, 15, of Oxford Road, Burnley, inspects the damaged to the family home which has been gutted.
  • Sunday: Duke of York landlady Marie Coulston surveying some of the broken windows caused by rampaging youths in Burnley on Saturday night.
  • Monday: Margaret Kelley Divisional Superintendent opens up the St John Ambulance Offices, Duke Bar, Burnley, to begin the clean-up operation after bricks were hurled through the window
  • Monday: Cars lie burned out while shop windows are boarded up after being smashed in a night of riots
  • Monday: Burnley Town Hall, Riots Press Conference. Chief Supt. John Knowles is filmed by the BBC.
  • Monday: Burnley Town Hall, Riots Press Conference. Chief Supt. John Knowles is questioned by the media.
  • Monday: Tensions running high in Abel Street.
  • Monday: Fire rips through 30 or so cars at Burnley Car Dismantlers in Arch Street
  • Monday: Fire rips through 30 or so cars at Burnley Car Dismantlers in Arch Street
  • Monday: Fire rips through 30 or so cars at Burnley Car Dismantlers in Arch Street
  • Monday: Fire rips through 30 or so cars at Burnley Car Dismantlers in Arch Street
  • Monday: Fire rips through 30 or so cars at Burnley Car Dismantlers in Arch Street
  • Tuesday: Repair work continues over Asian businesses destroyed in Oxford Street.
  • Tuesday: Repair work continues over Asian businesses destroyed in Oxford Street.
  • Tuesday: Moulana Sidat (Chairmanof the Lancashire Council of Mosques), Salim Mulla (Secretary for the LCM) and The Reverend Simon Beasant (Chairman of the Lancashire Inter Faith Forum) survey the damage to the Duke of York
  • Tuesday: Colin Dawber (far left) owner of the Duke Bar News, talks to the Multi Faith Delegation outside his shop in Duke Bar
  • Tuesday: Moulana Sidat (Chairmanof the Lancashire Council of Mosques), Salim Mulla (Secretary for the LCM) and The Reverend Simon Beasant (Chairman of the Lancashire Inter Faith Forum) survey the damage to the Duke of York
  • Tuesday: Shahid Malik, back on the streets of Burnley, talking to Asian community leaders
  • Tuesday: Shahid Malik, back on the streets of Burnley, talking to Asian community leaders
  • Tuesday: Police at their temporary base in Trafalgar area of Burnley
  • Tuesday: Police on horses, as peace seems to return to the streets.
  • Tuesday: Police on horses, as peace seems to return to the streets.
  • Tuesday: Two mounted police officers stroll down a deserted Oxford St, Burnley

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