John Burke's a-Musings

On Satuday as I was walking through Blackpool with camera at the ready I stopped to take a photo of the old Syndicate night club building. ...

I found a little time on Saturday morning to run round Blackpool with a camera. The construction work on the new Gateway site (why do I w...

I was doing a bit of scanning last night. In my folders of black and white negatives I've now reached mid 1985. This one made me go ...

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...

Negatives from 1976 were going through the scanner last night. It was the year Fran and I were married and moved to Blackpool and I can...

Ages since I added to the occasional series of Vanished Blackpool so here's a quick one to savour! Savour may not quite be the most ap...

One for the Vanished Blackpool series. I'm afraid I haven't stirred myself yet to take the camera into the newly refurbished and en...

A couple of today's photo uploads to my Flickr account . I could almost have included this in the Vanished Blackpool series as these da...

Whilst no town can ever hope to preserve all of its historic buildings without halting all progress, this loss was a particularly sad one. ...

There are lots of photographs in my collection of things that no longer exist. Even were I to limit the photographs to my home town of Black...