Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Here’s One I Took Earlier
Gone to Wales. Not got there yet. So here’s a picture I took earlier. Fifty-nine years earlier in fact.
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Albert And The Machine
The photograph was taken 70 years ago at Mackintosh’s factory in Halifax. It shows a group of mechanics and engineers proudly gathered around the latest wrapping machine they have installed. My father,…
Cathedral Of Commerce
An early colour photograph of mine (note the pre-decimal currency) and one where the exposure left a lot to be desired. What it lacks in technique, it makes up a little for…
The Valley
I half painted this picture, which I am calling “The Valley.” It was an exercise I undertook with the grandchildren to try and avoid the dreaded screen-time, and their paintings – even…
Forever Gaumont
To me, it is, and has always been, the Gaumont Cinema. It’s had other names and been other things, but even today I would probably still refer to it as…
A Pint, A Course And A Castle
I will always have fond memories of Wentworth Castle near Barnsley, back in the 1980s when Northern College was first established there under the legendary Michael Barratt Brown. Many are…
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