Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
1980s
Another photograph from my Sheffield series, taken back in the 1980s. The cars scream the 1980s. The background – slowly fading into a post-industrial emptiness – weeps the 1980s.
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Just Imagine
So I said to AI, “Here’s a picture of Halifax’s old Piece Hall Let’s imagine, just for a second, that one of the world’s finest singer-songwriters, James Taylor, was over there in…
Foggy Night In Sheffield
It was over forty years ago, but I can still remember taking this photograph. This was long before everyone had a camera in their pocket disguised as a telephone, so I would…
Calder Scars
I must have taken this photograph looking across the Calder Valley from Hullenedge Road in Elland about fifty years ago. I was probably trying to capture the freshness of the scar resulting…
Tunnel Vision
Many old castles have secret tunnels, but the one that runs under the ancient Dénia Castle in Alicante Province, Spain is somewhat different because it is less than a hundred years…
The Slow Train
At one time, railway lines criss-crossed West Yorkshire like the warp and weft of the very fabrics the area was famous for. Holmfield Junction Station stood at the junction of…
Stone Passion
Forget Fifty Shades of Grey: let the sun shine in Yorkshire and you get something much better – fifty shades of stone. Those shades don’t come from some manufactured dye (see…
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