Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
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Filling Up
Let’s travel back in time. It was the mid 1960s and I was earning a little extra money whilst still at school by working in the local petrol station in … Continue reading Filling Up
Pablo Picasso, The Glass Of Beer And A Cubist Fence
I have suitcases full of old photographs, acquired from here, there, and endless market stalls: lost and unwanted prints of people long forgotten and places long gone. My escape route … Continue reading Pablo Picasso, The Glass Of Beer And A Cubist Fence
Liberty
Forcing forward in the spirit of liberty or getting bogged down in the mud of history: today’s calendar image dates back to 1982 and the Yorkshire Miners’ Gala Parade in … Continue reading Liberty
Thrills In Halifax
The basis of today’s image is a photograph I took in the mid 1960s at Halifax Charity Gala in Manor Heath Park. The thrills were provided by the noise, the … Continue reading Thrills In Halifax
Copley Bridge
The bridge which spanned the River Calder at the village of Copley, near Halifax, formed a solid memory from my youth. Often I would run over its’ hefty stone spans … Continue reading Copley Bridge
Faded Memories Of Elland
Two of my old photographs of Elland – taken in the 1970s – and a new interpretation which forms my daily desktop calendar image.
A Frost Over Wortley
Photographs from yesterday – A Frost Over Wortley
So Enoch Was A Motor Driver’s Mate
It is the day that all cultivators of family trees have been waiting for, the day of the great reveal, the day some of the questions get answered. Yes, it … Continue reading So Enoch Was A Motor Driver’s Mate
Southgate Memories
Memories tend not to be photographic: time smooths the edges, blurs the focus and calms the emotions. I must have taken the original black and white photograph of Southgate in … Continue reading Southgate Memories
On This Day – 4 Jan 1922 : Keep Fit And Avoid Infection
From The Halifax Daily Courier And Guardian : 4 January 1922 A watchful eye is being kept by the Ministry of Health on the progress of influenza, which prevails to … Continue reading On This Day – 4 Jan 1922 : Keep Fit And Avoid Infection
The Man With The Hat
Someone once said that an image is a collection of lines and shapes that evokes memories and emotions (*), and if this is the case, I am addicted to images. … Continue reading The Man With The Hat
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