Smith Bulmer's Mill in Holmfield, Halifax, pictured in the late 1960s or early 1970s. I had a holiday job there once, as - what used to be known as - a "bobbin ligger": sorting out a mountain of old bobbins into pointless piles.
Author: Alan Burnett
Counting The Chimneys
Even more proof that life existed in Halifax before Burdock Way. This photo has a slightly wider field of view than yesterdays. If you are stuck inside during Lockdown with nothing to do, you can always count the chimneys!
Life Before Burdock
Photographic proof - if ever proof was needed - that there was life in Halifax before the Burdock Way. I must have taken this photograph sometime around 1970: after much of the demolition of New Bank, but before the overpass was started.
No Message Required
This is a rather strange picture postcard featuring the Victorian and Edwardian entertainer, Marie Studholme. The photograph is fetching enough: she sits suspended in a hammock next to a table bearing a tennis racket. The table, however, also contains a basket full f some strange unidentified objects that look rather like a cross between a … Continue reading No Message Required
Hand Still Improving In The land Of Possibilities
A moment in history captured by a cheap picture postcard. It is April 1906 and MBD is in Washington DC. He - or could it be, she - is there for the day: and that can mean either Washington or, more specifically, the Pensions Building. The building is a grand affair, built in the mid … Continue reading Hand Still Improving In The land Of Possibilities
Smiling Faces
If you are locked-in, socially isolated, tired of twiddling your thumbs: what better to do than to go searching for photographs. You can't get out, however; so the search has to be conducted from the safety of your desktop. You don't even need a stack of pictures: old photographs have layer after layer of art … Continue reading Smiling Faces
Pictures From Nowhere : April 2020
FOUR CRAZY GOLFERS : Who they are, I have no idea, but don't they look to be having fun! The date could be anywhere between the mid 1930s and the mid 1950s. Why they seem to be wearing their raincoats the wrong way round remains a mystery.
Negative Archives : Seaside Drive
A scan of a short strip of 35mm colour negatives taken in Cleethorpes and Grimsby sometime in the mid 1980s. CLEETHORPES : The mud-like sands at Cleethorpes. The line of container ships waiting their turn to sail up the Humber to unload at Immingham. The wooden pier with planks that look as if they have … Continue reading Negative Archives : Seaside Drive
Family Archives : April 2020
ENOCH BURNETT AND BETTY : Enoch Burnett pictured with his dog, Betty. The picture shows Enoch aged around 30, which would mean it was taken in 1908 or there about. By then, he had been married for three years and already had three children: John Arthur (b.1899); Miriam (b.1901); and Annie Elizabeth (b.1903).
