We had a meal out at the Old Bridge Inn, Ripponden last night. Lovely pub, glorious food and drink, and special friends. I could have got lyrical about it, but then I realised I did 9 years ago. Here's what I wrote then:- Imagine the scene. You are walking through a West Yorkshire village. The … Continue reading Getting Lyrical About The Old Bridge
Author: Alan Burnett
A Halifax Melodrama
North Bridge, Halifax (1905) This old postcard features a view of North Bridge, Halifax which must have been taken in the first decade of the twentieth century. The building on the left of the photograph is still there but the one on the right, the old Grand Theatre, is long gone. The theatre was built … Continue reading A Halifax Melodrama
Penny For Your Thoughts
Old age is a wonderful thing. It's a time when you need no excuses, when you can turn pointless time wasting into a passionate vocation. It's a time when you can dedicate most of the morning to scanning an Edwardian penny for no other reason than "it was there".
The Confidence Of Post-War Youth
My first thoughts about this studio photograph of an unknown young woman was that it might have been taken during the Great War. There is a confidence about her - the kind of confidence which came from women working in the factories and workshops, a confidence that somehow rose above the dangers of the workplace … Continue reading The Confidence Of Post-War Youth
Pavement Puddles
Pavement Puddle, Huddersfield : 5 March 2019 The weather forecast for today is sunny intervals, with heavy rain showers and great thick Yorkshire stone kerbs
Halifax Town Hall – Saved By The Banks!
This old picture postcard was never used and therefore we don't have a postmark to help us date it. It was published by a Halifax firm - Ryley's of 27, Southgate - but I have been unable to trace when they were active in business. The photograph appears to have been taken at eight in … Continue reading Halifax Town Hall – Saved By The Banks!
A Sinkhole In History Takes Us To A Missionary In China
This is an old photograph of a wedding party that must have been in a job lot of old photos I bought recently. Someone has kindly written some basic information on the reverse of the photograph: "Francis Henry and Alice Evangeline Mosse, Married at the Legation Church, Peking, November 8th 1921". Thirty years ago that … Continue reading A Sinkhole In History Takes Us To A Missionary In China
Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
Holdsworth's Wool Merchants, Mulcture Hall Road, Halifax (Alan Burnett, 1970) This is a scan of a negative of mine from 1970 featuring a Wool Merchant's warehouse in Halifax. The building is on the corner of the delightfully named Mulcture Hall Road. I always think that the word Mulcture sounds like a West Yorkshire mixture of … Continue reading Where There’s Muck There’s Culture
History Sticks To The Inconsequential
Whenever I get a new camera - in this case a new Smartphone - I can't resist taking a few photographs just to see what it is like in various circumstances. The subject matter of such shots is entirely inconsequential - it is whatever happens to be there in front of me at the time. … Continue reading History Sticks To The Inconsequential
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