Andrew Simpson

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Tuesday, 17 February 2026

So why did the Jacobite’s have the best songs?

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Now for those who don’t know, the Jacobite cause was the forlorn attempt  to restore the Stuart royal family to the throne. And in the proce...

Mrs Martha Thorpe, the slaughter house and a new row of shops on Beech Road

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  Now when Mrs Thorpe opened her “slaughter house” in 1879 on Beech Road I doubt she thought that she would still be there selling cuts of m...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 10........... from bread and dripping to Museli

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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 I suspect pr...

Shakespeare and Manchester: A Victorian Powerhouse Exhibition

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This exhibition tells, for the first time, the story of how seven personalities transformed Manchester into a global centre of Shakespearean...

A scene now lost in time ............. looking out from the short lived cafe in Piccadilly Railway Station

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Now that I grant you is not the most imaginative title but it does the business for this scene looking out across the city. It was tak...
Monday, 16 February 2026

What has family history ever done for any of us ………..?

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  Now I ask that question not to offend anyone and certainly not to rubbish countless people including friends as well as my own sisters who...

Beech Road 1980

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Now I always think that some of the most fascinating pictures of Chorlton are not those of a hundred years ago but the more recent. Often...
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