Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Any Lane
My photograph dates back to the early 1970s and shows one of those streets near the bottom of Lister Lane and Hopwood Lane in Halifax. The precise location doesn’t matter – it could be any lane in almost any northern town: with cobbled streets and an obelisk of a mill chimney.
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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 Few Shots…
Treasured Map
My brother contacted me from the other side of the world yesterday to suggest that my “monumental sculpture” photo was not taken in Sowerby Bridge. I have since been able to persuade…
Monumental Sculpture
One should be able to nominate buildings as items of monumental sculpture, thus ensuring their preservation not for what they contain, but simply for the way they look, the shape they make,…
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…
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…
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