Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Gone Shopping For History
I know this photo was taken before my time – though, I have to admit, not that much before my time – but I can still identify with the shopfronts on Crown Street, Halifax. H. Samuel was selling lucky wedding rings, Dolcis was helping to give Crown Street its name – “shoe shop street” – and Boots was dispensing prescriptions on the Market corner. You can take an afternoon historical walk without putting the photograph down!
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Facing Up To Halifax
Someone told me the other evening that I was responsible for them looking up whenever they walked around Halifax. As long as one keeps half an eye out for dangerous lampposts, this…
Sing, Sing, Sing
This is one of my photographs from my time helping out at Marsden Jazz Festival twenty years ago. Sometimes an image is enough – you don’t need words. Add music to taste.
Sound Or Silence
Back in the 1980s, as I was slowly losing what little natural hearing I had left, I would often go to Cleethorpes. I was drawn, in particular, to the latticework of timber…
Given Views
There are few finer moments than when you’re sitting in a pub, enjoying a pint, and some kind person comes up to you, hands you a book, and says, “We…
Sheffield Arts
I took this photograph from the front door of the Sheffield house we were living in back in the early 1980s. The tall building is the splendid 20th-century University Arts…
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