Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Assessing The Lie
My Great-Uncle, Fowler Beanland, was a crown green bowler. In his youth, he played bowls in his native Keighley, in his thirties he played bowls in Cumbria where he was working,…
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Flying Through The Skegness Skies
This strange contraption perhaps gives a new meaning to the phrase “fell off the back of a wagon”! The wagon was “on the front” at Skegness, more years ago than…
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Halifax Post Office
I have several vintage postcards featuring Halifax Post Office in my collection, which is only right and proper as it is a fine looking building. The building – and the…
Set The Night On Fire
To mess, or not to mess, that is the question. Whichever one you choose, it shows the railway viaduct, part of the Bailey Hall factory of Mackintosh’s, and a mill…
Click Bait
Twenty-first century media is driven by little other than the remorseless drive to get you to click on some meaningless advert for funeral plans, miracle diets, or mobility scooters. We…
Back Yard, Sheffield, 1980
I took this photo in the back yard of our house in Sheffield 40+ years ago. It’s sometimes said that Sheffield was built on 7 hills, but, in truth, it’s…
John King Lane, Brighouse
This vintage postcard of Brighouse dates from the early years of the twentieth century and shows a part of the town that has undergone changes over the last 100 years,…
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