John Burke's a-Musings

On Saturday night we were playing a private booking for a birthday party in Thornton - a gig close to home for a change! The birthday gi...

A few recently scanned tram photos from May 1984. We'll start off with the spectacular 1904 Blackpool Dreadnought tram. Originally ...

Cor - and there it was, gone...! Another totally brilliant Billy Fury weekend. We set up our gear at Sunley and ran through a couple of...

September 1983 and on one of our forays out to take photos of old and curious things we come across the half-timbered Tudor hall known as Ha...

The zebra are watching with interest Cloaked in their black and white stripes The parrots are excited and chatting " I think the...

I've reached the last quarter of 1983 in my scanning now. The famous Illuminations start every year on the Friday following August Bank...

August 1983. This time we are in Whalley to visit the remains of the abbey that once thrived here. It was a Cistercian Abbey dating fro...

I don't know why I don't do more of these. This is a sketch I did with coloured pencils at home in 1993 from a photograph taken ten...

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

I have never described myself, or even thought of myself as a bus enthusiast. But a few photos went through the scanner recently of a comme...

This week a set of photos from the Lake District have been going through the scanner. In August 1983 Fran and I took Gillian, then aged 6...

In August 1983 I found myself pushing through the undergrowth of a forest near a village called Beetham in north Lancashire. The path - or p...

I like to find things that are a little out of the ordinary (and haven't all that far to look, let's face it...) So a quick collecti...

Miss Franny had been upstairs for quite a while and came down with a twinkle in her eye... " We can have some fun in bed tonight! ...

From Pierre Petrou, Head of Media, billyfury.com Northampton moves halfway to paradise for fans of rock legend Billy Fury next month. ...

Reading the paper today - shows how lacksadaisical I'm feeling for a start... Apparently the results of a survey done by a travel-relat...

Blackpool made an early investment into powered flight. As early as 1909 they held an Air Pageant at Squires Gate following a suggestion by...