Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Courage Brewing
This was Courage’s Anchor Brewhouse, which was next to Tower Bridge in London, back in the 1970s. When I took the photograph, breweries were still big and located in the heart of our towns and cities. These days, breweries are either of the micro variety, or they are formless features on out-of-town industrial estates. As for the Anchor Brewhouse, you can now buy a small apartment there for as little as £5 million!
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Droning On
These days you would just launch a drone, but back in the 1980s we didn’t have drones (probably a good things seeing what else drones can do). If you wanted an aerial…
Britannia In The Trees
Britannia has sat on top of the rather ornate former bank at the end of Elland Bridge for 133 years. You might think she’d get bored, but I suspect she enjoys the…
Prescience
I took this photograph a couple of days ago, gave it a title, and scheduled it in for my calendar for the 1st of March. Prescient, or what?
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…
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…
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