For the last decade or so, I have been producing a family calendar which gets distributed to various relatives for Christmas each year. Over the years I have worked my way through many of the old photographs that chart the history of the Beanland, Berry, Burnett and Usher families. For next year, I have decided … Continue reading The Bikers In Colour
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Grimsby Smoke
Like a testing bed for science fiction robotic monsters, the smoke extraction chimneys at this Grimsby fish smokers create patterns against the sky. Black and white and little in between. (Grimsby Fish Docks, 1988 : Alan Burnett)
Around The World In Eighty Words : 6. DRINK
"I bet you wish you had listened to my question now". My dog, Lucy, and I were floating on a plank of wood in the northern regions of the North Sea, three hundred or so miles west of Trondheim. A few weeks ago we embarked of a ridiculous challenge to see whether we could go … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 6. DRINK
A Recycled Mucky Postcard To Lady Luppell
I came across this old postcard whilst sorting through the junk/priceless archives in my room. I decided to do a Google search for the "Lady Luppell" the card is addressed to. The only reference to the lady I could find was a blog post I wrote eight years ago, the last time I found the … Continue reading A Recycled Mucky Postcard To Lady Luppell
Around The World In Eighty Words : 5. CHANGE
"Well, OK, it's a change", said Lucy as we walked across another field in another country. I detected an element of sarcasm in her voice - which is not easy to do when you are talking to a dog - which was completely undeserved. "Can you see any frozen lakes?", I asked. She didn't seem … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 5. CHANGE
Sooty Stone And Net Curtains
This is one of my photographs from the late 1960s which I took from Lower Kirkgate in Halifax, just below the then Parish Church (now, Halifax Minster). Fifty plus years later, the railway viaduct has gone, and the same is true of the pub with the net curtains that used to nestle under the railway … Continue reading Sooty Stone And Net Curtains
Making Choices On A Rainy Morning
It's raining and I'm supposed to be rearranging the deckchairs in my Titanic study. This entails moving piles of papers and old photographs from one plastic box to another and finding more floorspace to accommodate even more plastic boxes. As an exercise this is up there with paint drying, and therefore I waste a ridiculous … Continue reading Making Choices On A Rainy Morning
Around The World In Eighty Words : 4. SAKE
"For heaven's sake, it's not just bad luck, it was a terrible selection". I was quite pleased with my ability to string together our latest three word geolocation code to make an apposite sentence. Lucy, my dog, was less pleased with the implied criticism, but that was the least of our worries. We had been transported from Honduras, with … Continue reading Around The World In Eighty Words : 4. SAKE
Bursting With Life
This is one of those old photographs that Is so full of life it is almost bursting. Whatever is going on - and you could happily spend an hour or two trying to work out exactly what is going on - is captured to perfection by the photographer. In addition to all that, for a … Continue reading Bursting With Life
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