John Burke's a-Musings

The other day I mentioned the Reel ride at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and it opened the floodgates to emails asking for photos of it. And wo...

Rumours that the Monorail has run its last trip around the Pleasure Beach are reaching my ears. The Monorail opened in 1966 and was 11 ye...

Last weekend the band were out at Garstang Golf Club to play at a birthday party. It was a big affair, formal dress and a sit down buffet f...

Last night Creeping Bentgrass were on stage at the Barlow Institute in Edgeworth near Bolton. It was an exciting ride over the Lancashir...

I recently came across a few boxes of large format colour transparencies, shot on 120 film (6x6cm or 2.25x2.25inches). They were shot on a ...

Monday 1 October 2012. After leaving Sheringham we drove around the coast back to Great Yarmouth for our final evening before heading back ...

Monday 1 October 2012. We have finished journeying up and down the North Norfolk Railway and decided to have a look at what else Sheringham...

I always appreciate it when someone starts to "follow" my blog and a very warm welcome to Dorothy who added herself recently. It...

Tintagel is now forever linked with the legend of King Arthur. In the stories it is to the castle on top of the cliff that Merlin smuggles ...

ADVANCE NOTICE King And King To Be will be on a FREE promotion Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 12-14 October 2012. You can download it fo...

Monday 1 October. We'd seen aeroplanes, we'd seen trolleybuses. We had even seen trams. So in the midst of the Norfolk Broads, wh...

Another pairing with photos from 1968. In 1968 Temple Street ran from Church Street to Victoria Street. On the corner of Church Street w...

Sunday 30 September 2012. We left the Aviation Museum at lunchtime and headed for... a transport museum! We have visited the East Anglia T...

Sunday 30 September. We drove down to a place called Flixton to an old RAF wartime aerodrome where a collection of aircraft and aircraft pa...

It's been a busy old time! I know you were expecting the next instalment of the long weekend and that will come soon I promise. This e...