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Group of people around ornate lamp feature:

Thanks to Elaine Baker for identifying this image as "The Fountain" at the junction of Victoria Road and Burnley Road in Padiham.

Roger Frost has also provided the following information about "The fountain".
Structures, like this, were common at the more important road junctions in Burnley and Padiham in the days of horse drawn vehicles and when there was less traffic on the road than there is now. The structures were usually not fountains but elaborate gas lamps.
The first to be erected in the Burnley area, so far as I know, dates back to 1823 when the Burnley Gas Co., was founded. It had a gas works on Parker Lane, in Burnley, and it supplied gas for street lighting, mills and for domestic use, but the company decided to construct a more elaborate gas lamp in the centre of the town as an advert for their business. The site chosen was the junction of St James Street and Manchester Road (though the latter was known as Market Street, in 1823). Most of the major road junctions had similar gas lights but the best known of these was the one at Sandy Gate/St James Street.
These lamps were known, by the locals, as Gaumlesses – because they stood in the middle of the road!