John Burke's a-Musings

It was our worst case scenario. The missing yoghurt (see the previous entry for details) has been spotted heading south on the M6 hard shou...

Great excitement in the library at work where I rent my modest little office. One of the Library Assistants, normally such a diligent person...

Every now and then my screensaver throws this one up at me from all the thousands of images I have on the computer. I always think you can j...

Just back from a two-day trip to the Newcastle office. One of my colleagues who lives even further away than me was there too but in a diffe...

This postcard shows trams turning from the Promenade into Dickson Road at Gynn Square Blackpool. The route, to Blackpool North Station clo...

If it's rare that I do any sketching , then it's a once in a blue moon event for me to attempt a watercolour painting. Only about...

An early driving game from the 1950s or early 1960s by Williams. Road Racer had a small model car on a rolling drum which had a road painted...

Yesterday saw me up in Penrith, meeting up with Clive whilst we discussed our latest workshop for JISC infoNet . The Project Management Mast...

When I was a nipper this was the must have expensive toy. Most of the Meccano bits we had were originally my Uncle David's, though Mum a...

It is with sadness that I have to report the demise of this wonderful Regentone HandyGram record player. It lived in a small suitcase-lik...

Yep, ok... I've seen it now! Sorted! It was a mistake not a new collection...

Tram number 147, a Blackpool Standard, has been wonderfully restored and was out on Illuminations Tour duty tonight. We went out for a walk ...

Welcome to the first entry under the new blog name " John Burke's a-Musings ". I wanted the blog to be found a bit easier if a...

A couple of people have expressed some surprise that my entry Leo's Lovelies about the French photographer from the 1920s featured a yo...

A postcard commemorating the last steam tram to Heywood on 20 September 1905. The small steam engines used to draw tram trailers were strang...

In the old days postcards were a team effort. First they sent out a photographer. Then they got someone with a brush and a few cans of Dulu...

Happy Birthday greetings to a roadie extraordinaire, diary keeper supremo, props finder, Creeping Bentgrass dedicated fan, wife to some sing...

After the World Cup Rugby Final last night, it's timely to remember this old arcade game from 1968. My brother Frank and I used to lo...

Last night we went off to Garstang to see the Garstang Light Opera Group present " Love's Roundabout ", a collection of songs ...

Another postcard from my collection. This one shows Great Yarmouth, Norfolk's premier holiday destination in the 1960s judging from the...