Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
On The Slopes
Photography was made for groups. Get a group together – be it a group of friends, family, fellow workers, or ten-pin bowlers – and one of the first reactions is to get out a camera and record the moment for posterity. Group Photographs is one of the themes for this week’s Sepia Saturday, and my contribution is this group of skiers in Switzerland in 1926.
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Picture History
My photo dates back to the 1960s and shows the junction of Cripplegate and Mulcture Hall Road in Halifax. There’s a textbook-full of history in the buildings and a library’s worth in…
Windows 80
I call this photograph Windows 80, not as a tribute to some upcoming Microsoft operating system, but because it was taken in 1980 looking out of the window of my parents-in-law’s house…
The Sea, The Sea
My mother loved the sea. Go within salt-spray distance of the coast, and you would find her paddling along the shoreline, watching the waves come in. My brother sent me…
The Cauldron
On countless occasions in my youth, I would walk through Northowram village, along Howes Lane to the point where the earth ends and Shibden Valley begins. I would focus my…
Hebridean Dreaming
We were whisky distillery-hopping on Islay (can they be a finer way to spend time?) As someone once said (or sung), we stopped into a church, we passed along the…
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