Andrew Simpson
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Sunday, 11 October 2026
Loons, lava lamps and growing up ............ the 1970's
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Larva lamps I have known Now it is odd the way that some decades get the thumbs up and others are relegated to the dustbin of history ....
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At the Tower of London in the summer of 1955 and other childhood memories
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Outside the Tower with Nana, 1955 I can’t say I remember this day at the Tower of London. It would have been I think in the summer ...
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Looking down on Chorlton in 1927
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I like aerial photographs of Chorlton and this one has the lot. Looking down on my bit of Chorlton, circa 1930s-40s My friend Bill se...
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Saturday, 10 October 2026
On becoming your dad
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I have become my dad which I suppose is not that surprising really. It is less the physical appearance although that is clearly there i...
Nostalgia ….. penny ago ….. memories of a past Chorlton-cum-Hardy
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These are pictures of our Lych Gate on the green. 1979 They were taken in the winter of 1979, although I am well prepared to accept a date i...
The canal, some lost buildings and a moment from 1978
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This is Canal Street in 1978, and for me and those friends who went to the old College of Commerce it is familiar scene. Canal Street and...
Friday, 9 October 2026
Miss Earlsome .... her romantic Valentine ..... and a fine row of houses ..... Oxford Street 1819
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I am a romantic and always have been, so the sight of a 19th century Valentine letter was all I needed to start a story. That romantic poem...
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