It was a must-have photograph back in those days. Every time we got a new car - and let's not fool ourselves, a "new car" meant a car new to us - there had to be a photograph of my father standing next to it or sat inside it. The photograph would need to show … Continue reading The Car
Author: Alan Burnett
Footfall On The Flagstones
Halifax Borough Market in the 1970s: fresh-baked teacakes, brown paper bags full of fruit, slices of boiled ham. Crowds of people - constant footfall on the flagstones.
Black Brook, Green Fields
If you have to be locked down. If you have to be restricted to just one hour's exercise a day. Let it be Spring. Let the sun shine. Let the waters of the Black Brook flow through the green fields.
So Much Life, So Little Space
You never see this kind of look these days: today it's all smiles and Facebook filters. This little Victorian print is less than two inches by one, but it manages to pack so much life into such a confined space.
Dark Days And Wet Cobbles
Halifax Piece Hall back in the 1970s and 80s: in transition between low carrots and high culture. Half full stalls and half empty walkways: dark days and wet cobbles. Everything is so much brighter now, the scale is so much grander.
Scan To Survive
What else is there to do during lockdown than visit the past? Therefore, I scan to survive; and the strip of negatives that took the journey across the scanner today included a set of photos shot in a typically West Yorkshire field some fifty years ago. In the first photograph the field divide is a … Continue reading Scan To Survive
Kids These Days
Kids these days! They're surgically attached to their mobile phones. Never off them. You can't have a good old fashioned conversation with them any more, because they are glued to their phones. Now, when I was a lad ...... I received through the post today, a copy of Lilliput Magazine from October 1947 (has anyone … Continue reading Kids These Days
Mother And Child
This rather beautiful studio photograph that somehow found its way into my collection must date from the early years of the twentieth century. There is something about the look and dress of the woman that hints more towards Great War munition worker than Victorian housewife. There is an indented studio name near the bottom of … Continue reading Mother And Child
Too Beautiful
Can something be too beautiful for these difficult days? To idyllic for the dark times within which it is set? This footpath through the woods in Fixby tests the theory to its extremes.
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