John Burke's a-Musings

Yesterday we decided to be tourists for a day. We started off with breakfast with Gill and Grace and David and Jeannie in Quilligans and t...

Yesterday Miss Franny and I decided we were going to have a ride on one of the new Blackpool Trams, the Bombadier Flexity2. The Flexity2 ...

Yesterday we were motivated out of the house by a strange glowing ball in the sky and picked up daughter Gill and Granddaughter Grace to hav...

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 ...

Taking further the thoughts I expressed yesterday (see Blackpool South Shore Station Demolition ) about not taking photographs of things tha...

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...

No... not anything to do with the Siege of Mafeking, or shift work or massage parlours... After 3 days of hell, the midge bites sustained...

The Facebook page for my book, King And King To Be now has several photos of different locations to be found in the book. I've fou...

Yesterday saw Creeping Bentgrass out at Darwen, playing at a friend's garden party. I took the blue Mexican Stratocaster along for a ch...

In March of 1985 I was freelancing photos to magazines and was particularly successful with those of things that had a story attached. In t...

Just harking back to last weekend's Tram Sunday event in Fleetwood for a moment, there was one other item of interest on display that I...

The other day I had to go to Bristol for a work meeting and took the train. It's a fair chug down from Blackpool to Bristol, involving ...

Yesterday we went out for a morning's stroll around Fleetwood as it was Tram Sunday , the town's annual transport festival. In co...