John Burke's a-Musings

Tuesday 18 August 1992. We stayed away from the cars for the day and although the weather was not overly warm, we spent time on the beach at...

I'm digging into the past - 34 years into the past to be precise - to bring to you, my dear readers, yet another example of the daft exp...

Saturday 26 August 2023. After the excitement of finding the Red Arrows were giving a display a couple of hours after arriving at Sidmouth, ...

Tuesday 8 August 1989. We wake in bright light. Alarmed we check the tent roof, but no... it's coming from outside. High in the sky is...

Sunday 4 August 1996. It's lunchtime and it's taken all morning to get from Porth to the centre of Newquay. We've managed t...

Wednesday 29 August 2007. We are in the French Riviera town of Cassis and after walking around the harbour with its pastel houses, colourful...

Several years ago I bought an old 1930s photo album from an antiques shop with a view to scanning the photos and using them on the blog. In...

Monday 31 January 1983. We awake to the sight of snow falling in Blackpool. Grabbing a camera, I set off to walk up the Promenade. Usual...

Way back in 1994, when the Internet was somewhere only nerds went, this particular nerd started a web page about Blackpool. I was alloc...