Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
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 have been my mother Gladys’s birthday. Today is my brother’s birthday. Happy birthday, Rog – see you in December.
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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 out into…
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 it art,…
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…
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…
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