Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Brighouse Fantasy
Did you ever get the feeling that you want to escape from the real world, with all its frightening developments and bizarre characters? Do you want to flee into a world of fantasy – to a time when gondoliers guided their boats through the Grand Canal at Brighouse? Fear not: your wish can come true immediately with just a tentative press of an A.I. button.
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Elland Power
Looking back at this photograph, which I took nearly half a century ago from Blackley Road and looking down over Elland, I’m reminded of how the power station used to dominate the…
Britannia’s Leafy Crown
It’s a photograph I have taken time and time again over the last half century: Britannia sitting atop her eponymous buildings in Elland. During the 1970s and 80s, the scene was stark…
Celebration At The Rock
This is a classic image of what has always been, to me, a classic pub. It’s not the closest pub to where I live, but it’s my local. It doesn’t…
Four Characters In Search Of a Narrative
Another image from that collection of old photographs I’ve acquired over the years, which fall under the general heading of “Found Photographs”. As usual, the questions of who, where and…
Oxford Days
A 40-odd year old photograph of me, surrounded by textbooks and typewriter, and captioned “Oxford, 1984” might suggest an involvement with some of the famed academic institutions of that city.…
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