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Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.


The Celebration

This photo has been in that suitcase of memories I call the “family archives” for as long as I can remember, and I always assumed the cake was celebrating the birthday of one of my relatives born in 1851. On closer inspection, it doesn’t say 1851 on the cake – it says 85. Given that the photo must have been taken around 1920, that means I’m looking for someone born around 1835. I haven’t found her yet.

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Revealing Dress

You can have great fun with artificial intelligence by asking it to transform a familiar picture of your favourite relative into an image of a 19th century Victorian gentleman – or whatever…

Long And Winding Path

It’s the end of the month, and here is a path leading somewhere – but who knows where? Whilst this is true in a literal sense (I have no idea where I…

Dirty Old Town

I frequently met my love by these gas works walls; they were opposite the carpet mill where I was working at the time. Around then, I may have walked a little way…