Andrew Simpson

This is another of those wonderful images from Ray Jones whose family owned one of the houses on Maple Avenue for over a century, spanning ...

The Thames Flows Down is another of those wonderful children's books written in the 1950s. It was the companion to   A Valley G...

  There are some parts of the city that even a bright sunlit day in the middle of a perfect summer  will always be drab and uninviting. And ...

  This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it. Hardy Farm, 1965 It has gone now, but it ap...

Now you have to be of a certain age to remember the Ceylon Tea Centre, or its equally enticing rival the Danish Food Centre. An exotic ...

Now every good park should have a bandstand. They were after all the centre of many parks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries whi...

Now, we all have our own cherished memories which seem with the passage of time to encapsulate a chunk of our growing up. Whitworth Str...