Andrew Simpson

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Saturday, 20 June 2026

Lost Manchester Streets …. Nu 98 …… the one that never was

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This is Sally’s Yard and it sounds like it should have been here for ever. Or at least from when Hulme Street was cut sometime in the earl...

When they stole the name of Little Stable Street

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History has not been kind to Little Stable Street. Looking down Salmon Street, 2023 First it stole its name some time in the 1870s and then ...
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Of Waterloo sunsets, Peckham Rye and the Pleasuance at Well Hall

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Now it is just one of those things that you miss where you grew up. Coming home, 2013 It is such an obvious statement but is none t...
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A lost bridge across the Brook

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Now I think it is time for a walk across the meadows in search of Mosley Bridge . It was a small bridge over the Brook put up by Charl...
Friday, 19 June 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 43 ..... the three that became two

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Now anyone who knows the Salisbury will have passed James Leigh Street and its companion Cayley Street. James Leigh Street, 2016 And ...
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A bit of the “other side” of London life in 1851 ................. stories from Henry Mayhew

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"Of the thousand millions of human beings that are said to constitute  the population of the entire globe, there are – socially, moral...
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Gaze upon this tarry thing ... all you in Chorlton who want to be nostalgic

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Now I am never one to stop a good story, and remain fully aware that out there, some remain nostalgic about stone setts which were once a c...
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