Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Green Clough
I took this photograph of Dean Clough in Halifax back in 2017. The profusion of green vegetation provides a date stamp: fifty years earlier, the buildings would have been the same, but the occasional sooty dandelion would have been the only plant life to survive. To be honest, nine years later and the scene will be far less green as the effects of the current heatwave and drought take effect. For a time, however, it was Green Clough rather than Dean Clough.
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Happy Birthday Roger
A photograph taken in a Bradford back yard more than three-quarters of a century ago. It features me sitting on my mother’s knee, watched over by my brother, Roger. Next Monday would…
The Sprinting Photographer
This is another of my Sheffield photos from when I was living in the city forty years ago. I was obviously much younger then because I was able to sprint out into…
You Decide
Is this real, or is it fake? As someone who has spent much of his life taking black-and-white photographs, I don’t think I’m a good judge of what’s real. Is…
Just Imagine
So I said to AI, “Here’s a picture of Halifax’s old Piece Hall Let’s imagine, just for a second, that one of the world’s finest singer-songwriters, James Taylor, was over…
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