CLEETHORPES, 1983 (ALAN BURNETT) : I must stop messing about with old photographs: blurring them, changing them, artying them up. It has become a form of compulsive behaviour, and I have gone way beyond the line in the sand where I can judge whether they are of any value.
Author: Alan Burnett
WAITING FOR THE TRAIN
SHEFFIELD MIDLAND STATION (1983) Alan Burnett Another of my old photographs which I filed away into obscurity forty years ago, but return to now because I have nothing better to do. It is out of focus and blurred, but so are my memories. Don't ask me to say why I like it, I can't tell … Continue reading WAITING FOR THE TRAIN
BLUE SKIES AND WARM STONE
Church Street, Honley A walk from Netherton to Honley and back again - down, up, down, up - and the day decides to practice at being Spring. The skies are blue and the stone is thinking about trying to absorb the coming heat.
TICKETS PLEASE
Vintage Bus Tickets (Alan Burnett) There is something rather beautiful about old bus tickets. Those stout cardboard ones from seventy or so years ago, or those brightly coloured paper ones of forty or fifty years ago - there is both a tactile and visual pleasure in both. Where they exist today, bus tickets are meaningless … Continue reading TICKETS PLEASE
FROZEN IN TIME AND SURROUNDED BY HISTORY
Two Unknown Women At The Seaside (1940s) This little two inch square print fell out of my "Unknown Photos" box whilst I was rescuing another print. It clearly was determined to be scanned and processed and shared with the world - so here it is. Whoever the subjects are, they were frozen in time and … Continue reading FROZEN IN TIME AND SURROUNDED BY HISTORY
MARINE HOTEL
1920s Photograph : Marine Hotel, Barmouth A photograph from a collection of unknown and unloved old photos which I acquired for a few pounds on eBay. It is captioned "Marine Hotel, Barmouth" and probably dates from the 1920s. It was in monochrome: I have taken the liberty of adding a dash of colour to its … Continue reading MARINE HOTEL
ROMEO REMEMBERED
The Edwardian actor, Harcourt Williams, As Romeo (1905) The absence of Instagram and the like back in Edwardian times meant that celebrities had to turn to other methods of "getting themselves out there". Luckily they were able to climb onto the great postcard craze bandwagon. Ernest George Harcourt Williams (1880-1957) began his career playing Mr … Continue reading ROMEO REMEMBERED
ON THE MOORS
Looking back through my negative archives, it seems that I had captioned the original negative as "unknown moorland location". Forty years after taking the photo, I still have no idea where I was when I took it. Time has added even more uncertainty - and so have a variety of Photoshop filters. The result is … Continue reading ON THE MOORS
A Different Frame Of View
This is one of my photographs from forty or fifty years ago. The building is, of course, instantly recognisable: it is what was then Halifax Parish Church, and is now Halifax Minster. The frame will not be as instantly recognisable: the railway viaduct that carried the line from Halifax Station to North Bridge has been … Continue reading A Different Frame Of View
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