Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
With My Back To The Town
Back in the 1960s, I would often perch on Godley Bridge and photograph the view towards Halifax. Even then, it echoed those famous scenes of the 1930s – all soot-black buildings and strident mill chimneys. Occasionally, I would turn around and take a photo looking the other way, towards the Shibden Valley – all dinky cars and treeless hillsides.
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Messing About In The Market
This is based on an old photograph of mine of Brighouse market. I have subjected it to a whole series of filter-based interventions – in other words I’ve been messing with it.…
In The Early Morning Rain
This photograph of mine, taken a good few years ago, shows the Lisbon monument commemorating Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral’s first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic in 1922. I particularly like…
A Modicum Of Luck
Another example of what can be achieved through a combination of an unsophisticated camera, a semi-skilled photographer and a modicum of luck. I took this forty years ago – in Doncaster, I…
Breathless In Sheffield
The photograph is from more than forty years ago and shows the steps leading up to Fitzalan Square in Sheffield from Bakers Hill. In the early 1980s, I commuted by…
News From Nowhere No. 3,230
It was twenty years ago today (well, in fact, it was twenty years ago yesterday, but that doesn’t have the same musical ring to it) that I uploaded the first…
