Andrew Simpson

I am looking at the face of a young woman, and what makes the image very remarkable is that it sat at the bottom of the sea for nearly 160 y...

It will have been in 1979, and I guess it was sometime in the summer and on a whim, I took a trip on the River. Now if you were born and gre...

This is Hawthorn Lane, which is part of the Old Road, which snaked through Chorlton from Hardy Lane, skirting the parish church before head...

The new series on the history of what we wore, Knitting Patterns. Now if this isn't the pattern our Jillian used to knit that jum...

For those who were born around the mid 20th century who queued to see the film Spartacus, remembered with profound sadness the death of O...

  In memory of Ida Bradshaw who died on New Year's Eve and whose funeral service too place on Wednesday in St Clements,  here is the fir...

Now this metal notebook holder has been in the family for as long as I can remember. It is small but quite heavy and  I am ashamed to s...