John Burke's a-Musings

Saturday 23 March 2013. I wasn't due to touch the guitar for a few hours yet, but as we left the hotel bedroom to go for breakfast I ga...

Friday 22 March 2013. The Billy Fury weekend has moved from the Sunnyside in Northampton to the Hind Hotel in Wellingborough and is a quiet...

A few slightly surreal conversations over the past few months where people have come up to either David or myself and said, " We saw yo...

I found a little time on Saturday morning to run round Blackpool with a camera. The construction work on the new Gateway site (why do I w...

A lovely afternoon yesterday, sitting in Waterstones Blackpool, chatting to people and signing copies of my book, Blackpool Then and Now . ...

I know I've been a bit scarce here recently. I'm sorry folks, things have been a bit hectic! Work has been busy, but for a change,...

A new guitar made its way into my possession recently after much drooling and looking pleadingly at Miss Franny. So when I popped a couple ...

I feel a bit like Woody in Toy Story. Strange things keep happening to me. Once news got out that there was a book about Blackpool in the ...

Our last gig of the year was a house party where the night started with an apology from the hosts. This is where we did the summer garden p...

Never mind - it's only 364 days to Christmas... A couple of days ago Miss Franny disappeared into the kitchen, muttering something ab...

I can't believe this is a whole week since! But it is... Last Saturday we went over to Newcastle to see violinist Andre Rieu with his ...

Well it wasn't due out until the first of January, but the printers must have made special efforts because I received several copies of ...

Saturday 8 December saw us out at Poulton Golf Club to play for the Christmas "do" of a local car club. It was a superb night, ...

March 1977, the year of the Queen's Silver Jubilee. We had moved to live in Blackpool the previous year and were getting used to living...