John Burke's a-Musings

A collection of articles on the cars, buses, lorries, and trams that have appeared over the years at Fleetwood's annual Festival of Tran...

Back in the 1980s I was writing regularly for a Lancashire-based magazine and had a series of articles called "John Burke's Curious...

Sunday 29 May 2016. It's Spring Bank Holiday weekend and we decide to have lunch out at the Beach Cafe , St Annes. It's a beautiful...

It always happens that the things I should photograph, things that are about to disappear, I never seem to get round to until they either ar...

In March 1985 I was trundling around East Lancashire looking for a few curiosities I had read about in Arthur Mee's wonderful series of...

August 1983 saw me dashing about the Lancashire countryside, avidly snapping away at anything that was falling down, had already fallen down...

Ooh see! A new Children's History of Lancashire popped through my letterbox from Amazon today. What am I doing buying children...

April 1983. We risked the tidal road over the salt marsh to Sunderland Point. It is a long disused port in Lancashire, at the mouth of the...

What a brilliant night we had last night! It was one of those nights where we could do no wrong! Garstang's Tithebarn was full to the r...

On the corner of a lane in a tiny place called Dilworth in Lancashire lies a huge slab of stone in the bank. On the stone are carved the ...