Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Body Building
Our Sepia Saturday theme this week is “Work In Days Gone By”. Most of my family worked in the mills and factories of Yorkshire, but my Great Uncle Albert branched out and became a partner in a firm of motor body builders in Manchester. He left a photographic record of many of his creations, this being one of them. I like to think of it as a piece of mechanical sculpture.
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Free School
This is a photo of mine from sixty years ago of a rural school in Ireland. I’m not sure exactly why I took the photo; maybe I just thought it was a…
Dark Satanic Exclamation Marks
On the second part of our walk around Halifax in the 1930s, note the snow around Halifax Parish Church (nothing changes, does it?), and the black spire of the town hall punctuating…
Half A Walk
I’m inviting you to come and take a walk around Halifax in the 1930 courtesy of an old picture postcard from my collection. Or rather, half a picture postcard – the image…
The Fourth Piggy
This is one of the old mills that line the Calder and Hebble Navigation as it makes its way through Brighouse. It’s like a practical demonstration of every kind of…
Back Street, Back Then
I think this is somewhere in Halifax, and I believe I took the photograph sometime in the 1960s. My apologies for not being more exact and for not keeping a…
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