Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Sowerby Bridge Station
I must confess that I don’t remember the old Sowerby Bridge Station, although I’m sure I must have seen it before it burned down in the late 1970s. If this picture-postcard view is anything to go by, it was a rather grand affair – certainly in a different class from the functional, minimalist building that stands there now.
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Cut And Paste
I created this image of Halifax back in 2018, so it is definitely pre-artificial intelligence. Perhaps it’s artificial pseudo-intelligence, as it was created by repeatedly pressing Photoshop buttons without any plan in…
The Essence Of The Image
I have suitcases full of old photographs – my lost images collection – and sometimes, when I’m sorting through them, one will shout out at me. It’s not who the people are…
View From St Thomas’s
Those of us who spend our lives looking at pictures of old Halifax have a range of potential dating pointers: Is Square Church still a church, or just a spire? Is the…
Frightening
Artificial intelligence took one of my photographs of North Bridge and Burdock Way in Halifax and did this with it. It’s frightening. The problem is, it’s frighteningly good.
Green Change
Whenever I revisit one of my old photographs, I can never resist the temptation to seek out a modern view of the same scene to see what has changed. With…
This Is Bradford
This is Vine Street in the Great Horton district of Bradford. My father grew up a few streets away; my mother grew up a few more streets away in the…
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