Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
From The Archives
I’ve always had a fondness for old newspapers: give me a half-comfy chair and a pile of old newspapers, and I’m a happy man. If I can’t get my hands on the paper originals, then the online British Newspaper Archives is an excellent alternative, and it has the advantage of a very effective search engine. That is how I discovered this newspaper cutting from the Lynn News of the 6th of June 1972 and this rather pleasing drawing by my brother, Roger.
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More Shapes
Some shapes are instantly identifiable: the distant sweep of the moor-lined hills and the grand lines of a dye-works chimney that had ideas above its industrial station. The whole scene viewed from…
The Shape Of Things Gone By
This is not so much the shape of things to come as the shape of things gone by. That unmistakable shape of 1980s cars, TV aerials, telephone lines stretched across streets -…
The Only Decent Place In Fixby
This early twentieth century picture postcard has a fine view of Fixby Hall, which was one of the ancestral homes of the Thornhill family, but, by the time of this postcard, it…
Timeless Style
The Victorian photographer, John Bell, promised “photography in the latest styles” on the reverse of his classic carte de visites. There is, however, something timeless about the face featured on…
Albert In A Flap
Our Sepia Saturday theme this week is all about strange shapes, and the closest I seem to be able to get to it is this photograph from almost 100 years…
Nostalgic Thoughts
When Greenwoods was on’t corner, and Marks at top of town; when one day you could wait up, and next day you’d wait down. When sun was always shining, and…
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