Andrew Simpson

August into September used to be known as the silly season when with Parliament in recess along with the law courts nothing much stirred lea...

It is often the ordinary picture you take and discard as boring that comes back and shows a place as it was a long time ago. I was reminded ...

The pipe found in the garden, 2014 It is not much of a piece of history but I found it in our front garden which makes it special and t...

Now sometimes it is best just to stay with the image and keep the words to the minimum. The Bulls Head, 1875 The caption just says, “...

I like musicals, and so when I saw a trailer for a 1965 film about London and especially Bermondsey, I was hooked and sent off for the DVD....

Vigée Le Brun, my Wikipedia tells me "was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19t...

Now, we have lost most of the features of our rural past, here in Chorlton. The Old Road, 2016 But just occasionally there are still ...