Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Weather Forecast
Here is the weather forecast for today …. and tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that …..
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Tunnel End
Photographs don’t have to be “good” photographs to be memorable. Sometimes all they need to do is to capture a moment in time, seize a memory, transport you back to your youth. In this case…
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Hastings Hats
Some years ago I had a phase of buying old glass plate negatives on eBay. I had to abandon the practice as they would consistently arrive through the post in pieces. Here’s…
Remembering Sheffield
Went to a reunion in Sheffield last night, full of folk sharing memories of forty-odd years ago. Here’s my memories – of coffee and cream buses, Kelvin Hall flats, and the sound…
Industrial Heights
New housing developments in these parts have wonderfully aspirational names like Victoria Heights and Westminster View. Back in the old days street names were more descriptive than aspirational. Here’s one…
Enoch & Betty
A date stamp on the reverse of this studio portrait of my grandfather, Enoch Burnett, gives me a precise date – the 18th November 1928. At the time, Enoch will…
Halifax Escape
36/1001 : This is – or rather was – Halifax, but I’m not 100% sure where exactly. It was over 50 years ago that I took the photo, but I…
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