Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Looking Down In 1966 No 2
The second photo from that strip of 1966 negatives of Halifax, and I’d moved on from Godley Bridge. Let’s just say it was taken from New Bank, although it might have…
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Looking Down In 1966 No 1
After I developed my negatives, I would cut them into strips of six for storage. 50+ years later these strips serve to remind me of walks I took all those…
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Accentuate The Negative
The original photograph was taken almost 40 years ago. There was coal on the beach and a fire somewhere in the distance. The original colours were all a bit odd,…
Robin Hood Goes Fishing
It was almost 40 years ago, but I can clearly remember the day. It was early morning, long before anyone else in the holiday cottage had woken up. I was…
Halifax Before Colour
I did a thing last year for the Courier about iconic images of Halifax. This wasn’t amongst my chosen photos, but perhaps it should have been. It’s the way the…
Facial Recognition
Having been given an old family portrait of an unknown woman by a distant relative, I confidently told her that, armed with the very latest AI-driven facial recognition systems, I…
Blackledge
By tracing the route I must have taken 53 years ago, I suspect I was in Blackledge, just outside the Halifax Piece Hall, when I took this. The pile of…
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