Andrew Simpson

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Thursday, 22 October 2026

Wishing you well ........... postcards from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham for the summer ..... nu 4 The Royal Observatory

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A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham. Now as a kid I often took myself of...
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Selling flowers ........ By St Ann’s Church sometime around 1904

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Now I fell on this picture postcard of the flower seller by St Ann’s Square fully intending to write about a century of selling flowers a...
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Wednesday, 21 October 2026

Shakespeare and Manchester …. the exhibition which became the book ...

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Earlier this year I met Ian Nickson who talked me through his story of how seven personalities transformed Manchester into a global centre o...

In praise of a great city ........ Manchester in 1937

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Now, you can just look at these wonderful paintings of a lost Manchester, admiring the colour and verve of what you see, followed by charti...
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Planning an adventure across Peckham in the summer of 1960

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Now I say Peckham, but the chances are that in the summer of 1960 it could have been anywhere, from Nunhead and on to Dulwich, or via Deptf...

So …. where in Chorlton-cum-Hardy was Victor Stapleton Ashby in 1921? ……..

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Now as questions go this is not as daft as it reads, nor is it a candidate for The Twilight Zone .* Barlow Moor Road, circa 1920s Victor Sta...
Tuesday, 20 October 2026

An almost familiar scene of Mount Street in the heart of the city ........ just 89 years ago

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Now here is a picture of the city which is at once both familiar but not familiar. Mount Street, 1937 We are on Mount Street with Cen...
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