Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Britannia In The Trees
Britannia has sat on top of the rather ornate former bank at the end of Elland Bridge for 133 years. You might think she’d get bored, but I suspect she enjoys the ever-changing view. I’ve been regularly taking her photograph for the last 56 of those years. I, too, enjoy the view. Here she is on the first day of Meteorological Spring, 2026.
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Prescience
I took this photograph a couple of days ago, gave it a title, and scheduled it in for my calendar for the 1st of March. Prescient, or what?
Still Collecting
My passion for collecting old photographs recognises few bounds, and a few years ago I managed to acquire a small collection of the original negatives of “stills” from British films from the…
Times Certainly Change
Getting somewhat annoyed the other day by some toxic pronouncement by a global potentate, I banged my fist down on my desk, and my smartwatch informed me that it looked as if…
Sheffield Shapes
I took the photograph back in the early 1980s, and I messed around with it early yesterday. It snowed a lot back in the early ’80s, and I wandered up…
Street Photography
These days, this photograph would come under the heading of “Street Photography”. When I took it over half a century ago, it came under the heading of “Using The Last…
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