Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Tuesday, 13 January 2026
Mrs McMinn’s beer shop ... the Fustian man.... and the music printer ….. lost and forgotten streets of Manchester no. 98 ….. Short Street
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Short Street is very short. Short Street, 2024 And you might be excused if you failed to notice it, which is what I guess happens with most...
Down at the Savoy Cinema in 1937 on Manchester Road watching Road to Glory
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Now back in the summer of 1937 I could have had three cinemas to choose from here in Chorlton and of these the most impressive was the Sav...
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Travelling the Broads with a camera ….. part 2
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I am a great fan of other people’s pictures. It’s a mix of reasons from experiencing new places to seeing those places through the lens of a...
Just what did Blackheath have do to get a decent mention in Bradshaw’s Guide to London?
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Now if I was a resident in Blackheath in 1861, who had just gone out and bought my copy of Bradshaw’s Illustrated Hand Book to London and it...
Monday, 12 January 2026
Travelling the Broads ….. part 1
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I am a great fan of other people’s pictures. It’s a mix of reasons from experiencing new places to seeing those places through the lens of ...
The picture of Annie Magee on Hawthorn Lane and that young Chorlton bandsman
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Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value. So here is a picture from Pet...
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Of Eltham, Manchester and an artist from Wales
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Now I like the way things have a habit of falling together in a most unexpected way. Manchester School of Art 1900 So recently when ...
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