IN Victorian times, the pony and trap was the main mode of transport for many.

This image from the Telegraph's archives was a re-creation of those days, which took place at a Victorian extravaganza staged at historic Towneley Hall in Burnley, in 1989.

The event marked the centenary of the Museums Association, founded in 1889 and today the oldest association of its kind in the world.

The fair included pony and trap rides round the Towneley estate, which stretches to 284 acres, and this picture shows some of the children who opted to take a ride.

Towneley provided an ideal backdrop for the event, which was opened by Mrs Mary Towneley, pictured on the right with her veil and parasol.

For the hall was the residential home of the Towneley family for more six centuries, from the 13th century to 1902, when it was donated to Burnley Corporation.

One of the sandstone walls on one wing dates from around 1400 and is six feet thick at one part. Other clues that show it has been greatly added to and altered over the centuries is an internal wall, of similar thickness, between the kitchen and the family dining room, which reveals that in medieval times it was once an outside wall.