Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Liverpool!
This is a wonderful photograph – so much more eloquent than the usual smiling-face mugshot. That’s my mother pointing, my brother Roger digging in the sand, and me looking attentively at what she’s indicating. I suspect that could be Liverpool as the background suggest the photo was taken in New Brighton. Even the sloping horizon contributes to what is a fabulous composition.
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Fishy Shapes
Like a cross between Halloween-costumed children and monsters auditioning for Doctor Who, these smokestacks dominated the skyline at Grimsby Fish Docks 40 or 50 years ago. I visited the docks whenever I could…
Never, Never, So
.. And speaking of fakes! No doubt people will recall the time Vincent van Gogh spent in Halifax in the early 1870s, and his fondness of the view from Greetland overlooking the…
It Was Never So
This image comes from a 120 year old picture postcard of Halifax, and it is about as fake as any modern AI generated concoction. The colours have been painted in with all…
Skipping The Puddles
I’ve called this “Skipping the Puddles” because there are lots of skips and lots of puddles. It must be over forty years ago that I took the photograph, which means…
Of The Era
I may have used this image before on my daily calendar. After six years, I do occasionally repeat myself. I make no apologies; however, it has always been one of…
Random Beach
Counting both the photographs I have taken myself over the last seventy or so years and the old photographs I have collected, I currently have some 114,000 stored on my…
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