Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Postcard Law
There should be a law stating that everyone has to send a picture postcard full of idle chitchat at least once a year. Forget your WhatsApps and your Emails, I’m talking about old-fashioned cards with pictures on one side and meaningless gossip on the other. Then, 120 years from now, there will be a treasure trove of social, economic and family history for lovers of ephemera to explore.
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The Churchyard
I’ve chosen to caption this photograph, somewhat provisionally, as “The Churchyard”, because I can’t remember which churchyard I was in when I took it. The photographs next to it on the strip…
Brighouse Fantasy
Did you ever get the feeling that you want to escape from the real world, with all its frightening developments and bizarre characters? Do you want to flee into a world of…
Elland Power
Looking back at this photograph, which I took nearly half a century ago from Blackley Road and looking down over Elland, I’m reminded of how the power station used to dominate the…
Britannia’s Leafy Crown
It’s a photograph I have taken time and time again over the last half century: Britannia sitting atop her eponymous buildings in Elland. During the 1970s and 80s, the scene…
Celebration At The Rock
This is a classic image of what has always been, to me, a classic pub. It’s not the closest pub to where I live, but it’s my local. It doesn’t…
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