Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
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 other direction. There are terraced houses, a cobbled street and a mill at the bottom. This was Bradford. The houses are still there, but the mill has closed down and the cobbles have been covered. This is Bradford.
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Green Clough
I took this photograph of Dean Clough in Halifax back in 2017. The profusion of green vegetation provides a date stamp: fifty years earlier, the buildings would have been the same, but…
Happy Birthday Roger
A photograph taken in a Bradford back yard more than three-quarters of a century ago. It features me sitting on my mother’s knee, watched over by my brother, Roger. Next Monday would…
The Sprinting Photographer
This is another of my Sheffield photos from when I was living in the city forty years ago. I was obviously much younger then because I was able to sprint…
You Decide
Is this real, or is it fake? As someone who has spent much of his life taking black-and-white photographs, I don’t think I’m a good judge of what’s real. Is…
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