Our puzzle put the spotlight on the former Grand Theatre in Blackburn last week and reader Kenneth Varey took the curtain call.

Our image showed the building, in Jubilee Street, being demolished in 1958, to make way for the town's new telephone exchange.

First opened in 1880 as the Amphitheatre, it had a variety of names over the following decades.

As the Princes Theatre it could seat an audience of more than 1,000, including 200 in the gallery.

After a revamp, it was re-named the New Princes Theatre and was located at the rear of the Palace Theatre, which overlooked the Boulevard.

The owners of the Olympia Theatre took it over in the 1920s when it became known as the Grand. The curtain finally came down at the beginning of 1956,