Andrew Simpson

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Friday, 22 May 2026

Watching the Meadows change ......... June 1965

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I wonder just how many people remember this scene? We are on the Meadows, and according to the caption this was “June 16, 1965, Clearin...
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Lesnes Abbey ..........once lost and now found courtesy of Woolwich and District Antiquarian Society

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Lesnes Abbey was a place I discovered purely by chance in the summer of 1966. The north wast wall of the abbey, 2013 At sixteen I was...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 6 ............ Gravel Lane

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Now I know that strictly speaking Gravel Lane is neither lost nor forgotten. It runs from Blackfriars Road up to Greengate, but that ...
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Thursday, 21 May 2026

"The World Turned Upside Down"....The Levellers today ..... on the wireless

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Now I have always been fascinated by that upsurge of political debate before, during and after the English Civil War. An Agreement of the Pe...

Unseen photographs of Hough End Hall and Mrs Annie Elizabeth Roberts

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Now the story of Hough End Hall never quite leaves me and I have always been prepared for new pictures and new tales of the lives behind it...

When the Ferry met Dan Dare and arrived on our door mat ...... a thank you to Tricia

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Now I had no idea that the Woolwich Ferry would fall through our letter box today. I say the Ferry but it was one of those cut away dia...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Salford nu 5 ............ what you find on Blackfriars Road

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I am always fascinated by those narrow little passageways which hold the promise of all sorts of dark stories. Passageway, 2016 Now...
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