Andrew Simpson

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Friday, 20 February 2026

On Beech Road 44 years ago looking for a second hand telly and electric fire

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This is another of those images of the more recent past and one that plenty of people will remember. Picture; from the collecti...
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Paradise Walk ……… almost a lost and forgotten street of Manchester

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P aradise Walk ought to be one of those twisty little byways which to misquote the poem is “half as old as time”. Store Street, 1920 looking...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 18 ........... driving the coach to the Italian Lakes

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now it is that t...
Thursday, 19 February 2026

Eighty-six years in the story of the Rec on Beech Road

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I don’t usually do then and now pictures, and certainly not without a story, but today I shall. Here are two both from the Wilton end...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 17 ........... the Gas Board

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* It is funny how...
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Out to East Didsbury from Albert Square ……. on the new tram

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I say the new tram, because quite clearly this wasn’t the old fashioned tall stately tram which rattled its way around the city at the st...
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Remembering the Spanish Civil War

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