John Burke's a-Musings

Phew - it's been one of those weeks out on the road eating up miles and not getting much chance to sort out photos or thoughts! So let...

Am soooooo much in need of sleep after wonderfully welcoming weekend (a bit of alliteration for you there!) at Sunnyside, Northampton for th...

The scanning - as you may just have noticed - has slowed down a bit as I've been very busy at work and not at home all that much to do a...

Last night Creeping Bentgrass played a social "Dance Nite" at Catforth Village Hall. My SatNav tried to take us down a dead end a...

The snow that blanketed much of the country in December last year had happened before in Blackpool in 1981. On the evening of Sunday Decembe...

Last night we went to see Hazel O'Connor singing with The Bluja Project at Fleetwood's Marine Hall. With Hazel onstage were saxophon...

An exciting interlude on my way to Edinburgh today. Approaching the city from the south via the town of Biggar, I found myself following an ...

I know. I shouldn't. But I missed it the day when my photos at my Flickr account reached half a million views. So today I'm celeb...

I'm still scanning through the 1981 negatives although happily into December now. Some great pics of Blackpool in snow to come... This ...

I'm told there are still a few tickets left for our show at Catforth Village Hall on Saturday 5 March 2011. Starting at 7:30pm through u...

Here's another of the postcards I bought last week at the antiques place. This was posted from Southend-on-Sea on 21 August 1939 and sho...

This morning we were the studio band for Preston FM's Saturday Brunch , a light-hearted music and chat magazine-style radio programme. W...

It's been something of a trying week... At some point on Sunday I became aware of a twinge, a soreness low down in the abdomen. Admitte...

I'm soon going to have to move onto something else. The black and white negatives I took in 1981 are almost inexhaustible! I'm int...

On Tuesday night I arrived in Lincoln, prior to running some Project Management training at the university. After checking into the hotel I...

Saturday 10 October 1981. Blackpool was experiencing some rather heavy gales. And that means hefty ! Mostly when the weather forecasters ...

Taken during October 1981 here are a few photos of Blackpool Pleasure Beach at night. This shows one of the very early rides of the Pleas...

This year we have been booked for 3 days at the Garstang Arts & Music Festival. You'll be able to see us on Saturday 20 August, Satu...

10 October 1981. A nice man did something that no one would do today. He allowed me to go into the tram sheds on Rigby Road Blackpool for ...

The last entry of the 4 October 1981 Lake District set. We had ended the day at Ambleside and before we set off back we watched the sun d...