Welcome to the Website of Alan Burnett: writer, blogger, collector of old photographs, and devotee of all things pointless and inconsequential.
Deep History
For a long time, this was indexed under “unknown location” in my negative files, but a recent Google search allowed me to identify it as the former Hanley Deep Pit in Stoke-on-Trent. That means my photograph must date from the late 1960s or early 1970s, when I was at Keele University and the mine was already closed down and awaiting redevelopment.
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Escaping The Mill
The telegraph poles provide the date stamp for this photograph of a mill fire escape in Halifax. At some point over the fifty-six years since I took it, I seem to have…
Sheffield Days
This photograph dates back to my Sheffield days in the 1980s – days of grey and white and miners’ strikes. I’d probably just got off the bus, and as I skated down…
Busy Elland
I can’t be exact about the date, but I suspect it was around 1969 or 1970 when I took this photograph. It looks as though I was standing in the…
Stone Doubles
Isn’t AI wonderful? You can ask your favourite AI assistant to convert a selfie into a stone carving like the kind found on the walls of a medieval church. Alternatively,…
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