alanburnett.com

Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.



Still Collecting

My passion for collecting old photographs recognises few bounds, and a few years ago I managed to acquire a small collection of the original negatives of “stills” from British films from the…

Times Certainly Change

Getting somewhat annoyed the other day by some toxic pronouncement by a global potentate, I banged my fist down on my desk, and my smartwatch informed me that it looked as if…

Sheffield Shapes

I took the photograph back in the early 1980s, and I messed around with it early yesterday. It snowed a lot back in the early ’80s, and I wandered up and down…

Any Lane

My photograph dates back to the early 1970s and shows one of those streets near the bottom of Lister Lane and Hopwood Lane in Halifax. The precise location doesn’t matter…

Street Photography

These days, this photograph would come under the heading of “Street Photography”. When I took it over half a century ago, it came under the heading of “Using The Last…

Treasured Map

My brother contacted me from the other side of the world yesterday to suggest that my “monumental sculpture” photo was not taken in Sowerby Bridge. I have since been able…