Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
There are some scenes I return to again and again: photographs I have been taking for fifty years. One such is the statue of Britannia which overlooks Elland Bridge from her elevated position on the roof of the former premises of the Halifax and Huddersfield Banking Company. Sometimes I try and capture her in an elegant pose, flanked by the
Clay House Lane, West Vale, Nr Halifax (///nuns.look.shrimp)
Ten Years Ago : The Backs And Kings College, Cambridge (November 2010)
Fish & Chips Eating Out, Brighouse (November 2020)
Fungus On Tree Trunk, Bradley Woods, November 2020
The final shot of this particular strip of negatives from fifty or more years ago provides a bit of a clue as to how the various views of the area around Shaw Lane, Halifax, fit together. It is a bit like playing three dimensional chess, in that you are not only trying to remember where you walked over half a
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