Andrew Simpson

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Monday, 2 March 2026

Never throw away the negatives ....... part 4 ....the school ..... Derby Street

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Of the collection of pictures I rediscovered of the streets off Cheetham Hill Road, this proved the most elusive to identify. I remembe...
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Eltham High Street in the summer of 1915 and again sometime in the 1960s

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At first glance it looks familiar enough.   We are looking at the parish church  on a warm summer’s morning sometime in 1915. It is a...

A conversation …. the Saturday boy … and heaps of vegetables …. at Muriel and Richard’s on Beech Road

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Now Muriel and Richard’s will always have be a special place for me. Their fruit and veg was always the best, and at Christmas Muriel always...
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Sunday, 1 March 2026

When plastic bowls and a picture of San Francisco were a must ........ back at “Kingy”

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Now I make no apology at returning to Kingspot. If you are of a certain age and that pretty much covers everyone in Chorlton, you will ...
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Never throw away the negatives ....... part 3 .... The Manchester Ice Palace ..... Derby Street

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Now when I stumbled across the negatives of a set of photographs I took in the mid 1980s I was quite pleased with myself. The former Ma...
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The Dark End of the Street 1967 .............. songs you never forget

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I can’t remember listening to The Dark End of the Street when it was released in 1967 and it was only years later that I came across it.* ...
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Saturday, 28 February 2026

Never throw away the negatives ....... part 2 .... The Talmud Torah School ....Bent Street

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Now keeping the negatives never really seems worth it, but when the original prints get lost or damaged those negatives can prove very impo...
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