Andrew Simpson

Stories, people and events

Wednesday, 26 November 2025

Remembering the 1970s at Valentines on Barlow Moor Road

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Now the 1970s come in for a fair amount of derision which I am not sure is fair. It was like any other decade of the 20th century good ...
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Off to the “flicks” in the winter of 1913 and a challenge for today

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Now on a dismal Saturday afternoon in Eltham during the winter of 1913 I might well have decided to take myself off to the Picturedrome whe...
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Taking the bus ………… a silly Didsbury story

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I say silly but that would be unfair on this bus destination roller board, and equally unfair to Southern Cemetery, Withington, and the Whit...
Tuesday, 25 November 2025

Ki-ora, a choc ice and Bambi ...... the lost picture houses of Plumstead no 1

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Now a while ago I set down a challenge to find some of our lost cinemas , and quick as a flash Tricia came back with a first and the promi...
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The day I thought I was in the country …… urban tales from Chorlton-cum-Hardy

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Now, the purist will immediately point out I was not in Chorlton nor the countryside. But on a hot summer’s day sometime at the end of the 1...
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In St Peter's Square on an August Sunday in 1937, reflecting on what was and what was to come

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We are in St Peter’s Square on a Sunday.   Now I can be certain of that because the picture is dated August 8th 1937 which was a Sunda...
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Monday, 24 November 2025

The Milk Maid …. a train station ….. and the place that changed its name and changed it back again ….. Manchester stories ….

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There are plenty of ways of telling the story of Greater Manchester’s history but no one has done it by using the tram network, and yet with...
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