Author: Alan Burnett

Just What The Doctors Ordered

Just as I was feeling the weight of another lockdown falling on my shoulders, just as I looked in my beer fridge and found it as empty as a Boris promise, just as I contemplated despair as the only destination I would be visiting in this season of goodwill, there was a knock at the … Continue reading Just What The Doctors Ordered

Expression

Fairground Decoration, Kelham Island, Sheffield. 1 December 2012

Halifax In The Swinging Sixties

This wasn't a particularly good photograph in the first place: the focus could have been better, the composition would win no prizes. For the best part of 54 years it has been hidden away in my negative files, slowly collecting dust and fading into a relatively well-earned obscurity. There is, however, an inverse square law with … Continue reading Halifax In The Swinging Sixties

Watching Over Elland

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 … Continue reading Watching Over Elland

Nuns.Look.Shrimp

Clay House Lane, West Vale, Nr Halifax (///nuns.look.shrimp)

Backs Then

Ten Years Ago : The Backs And Kings College, Cambridge (November 2010)

Plus Ca Change

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 … Continue reading Plus Ca Change