Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
ON YOUTHFUL PASSION AND THE AROMA OF BOILING WORT AND HOPS
Youth is a time for falling in love. Whilst middle age can be devoted to fame and fortune and old age to remembering where you left your false teeth: youth…
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Auntie Annie And The Dead Fox Marker
This is a photograph of my Auntie Annie – Annie Elizabeth Burnett who, in October 1933, became Annie Moore. My guess is that this particular photograph was taken before she married…
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Driving Down The Lanes Of Nostalgia With A Shot Of Redex
As soon as the scan of this old negative of mine emerged from the digital equivalent of the developing solution, I knew there was something wrong. Not wrong, perhaps, as we…
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1000 PHOTOGRAPHS (1)
Grey sands, leading to a grey sea, under a grey sky. Skegness in the 1980s. It was a bit of a grey decade for me – the decade I lost…
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Indelible Rough Sea At Scarborough
A lovely old early twentieth century picture postcard of Scarborough, showing, if nothing else, that extreme weather conditions are not just a twenty-first century phenomenon. I have managed to find…
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A Photographic Tale Of Several Wilkinsons
I have a new printer due to arrive today, so I spend a bit of time sorting out a suitable image to test it out with. Eventually I decided on … Continue reading A Photographic Tale Of Several Wilkinsons
Printerless Series 1
For reasons too long to relate, I find myself without a printer. For someone who is obsessed with images, this is akin to a fell-walker being in bed with a … Continue reading Printerless Series 1
WHITBY – IMPRESSIONS
These three images are based on some photographs I took in Whitby in the mid 1980s. As time passes, memories become less certain, more like impressions, less like certainty.
Count The Chimneys
When I was a lad, the school geography text book had a picture of Halifax, taken from somewhere near Godley Bridge, and the task was to count the mill chimneys. … Continue reading Count The Chimneys
Halifax, 1987
Like most other local photographers, I have always been drawn to Old Lane, Halifax, just for the privilege of walking in Bill Brandt’s footsteps. No-one can match his classic 1930s … Continue reading Halifax, 1987
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