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Drainpipes At The Charity Gala

June 18, 2018 Alan Burnett

I took this photograph over fifty years ago at the Halifax Charity Gala. Even though it was the infamous “swinging sixties”; times were simpler then, and high-tech entertainment consisted of a hardboard bowing alley and some half drainpipes. Continue reading Drainpipes At The Charity Gala

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Waiting For Arthur

June 13, 2018 Alan Burnett

It was the early 1980s: a time when Arthur Scargill was King and the NUM believed it was invincible. I took this shot at a Yorkshire Miners’ Gala as preparations were being made for Arthur to speak. Continue reading Waiting For Arthur

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Back Street, Halifax

June 12, 2018 Alan Burnett

All I have about this old negative from my collection is the hint of a caption which is “Back Street, Halifax”; and even this I suspect I invented 20 years after taking the picture. This makes it about as reliable … Continue reading Back Street, Halifax

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Archives : Orgreave Before The Battle

June 2, 2018 Alan Burnett

Orgreave Coking Plant was like a working industrial sculpture that greeted visitors to the city as they drove along the Parkway from the M1. A couple of years after I took this photograph it became famous as the site of … Continue reading Archives : Orgreave Before The Battle

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Headscarves And Boiled Sweets

March 8, 2018March 8, 2018 Alan Burnett

1698 : Ten From The Archives 10 : Headscarves And Boiled Sweets HALIFAX BOROUGH MARKET (c.1967) One of my early photographs – this one was taken in Halifax Market more than fifty years ago. It was an age of headscarves … Continue reading Headscarves And Boiled Sweets

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The Stone Gods Of Southowram

March 7, 2018March 7, 2018 Alan Burnett

1697 : Ten From The Archives 9 : The Stone Gods Of Southowram STONE FIELD DIVISIONS, SOUTHOWRAM (1975) Like monoliths placed in tribute to the stone gods that gave these parts their economic meaning for centuries, these fine flagstones have … Continue reading The Stone Gods Of Southowram

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Rooftops In Sheffield

March 6, 2018March 6, 2018 Alan Burnett

More shots from a strip of negatives from the early 1980s. We were living in Sheffield at the time and I think I took these photographs … Continue reading Rooftops In Sheffield

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