Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Given Views
There are few finer moments than when you’re sitting in a pub, enjoying a pint, and some kind person comes up to you, hands you a book, and says, “We were having a clear-out and came across this old book about Halifax, and immediately thought of you.”
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Sheffield Arts
I took this photograph from the front door of the Sheffield house we were living in back in the early 1980s. The tall building is the splendid 20th-century University Arts Tower; the…
Halifax Tram Strike
One rainy Sunday evening in July 1906, the Number 94 tram from Shelf to Halifax ran out of control while coming down New Bank, overturned, and slid over North Bridge.…
Mainlining Memories
This photo is the result of a random dip into my archives. I took it forty years ago during a visit to Athens. I seem to recall that we stopped…
Deep History
For a long time, this was indexed under “unknown location” in my negative files, but a recent Google search allowed me to identify it as the former Hanley Deep Pit…
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