Andrew Simpson

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Wednesday, 21 October 2026

In praise of a great city ........ Manchester in 1937

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Now, you can just look at these wonderful paintings of a lost Manchester, admiring the colour and verve of what you see, followed by charti...
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Planning an adventure across Peckham in the summer of 1960

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Now I say Peckham, but the chances are that in the summer of 1960 it could have been anywhere, from Nunhead and on to Dulwich, or via Deptf...

So …. where in Chorlton-cum-Hardy was Victor Stapleton Ashby in 1921? ……..

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Now as questions go this is not as daft as it reads, nor is it a candidate for The Twilight Zone .* Barlow Moor Road, circa 1920s Victor Sta...
Tuesday, 20 October 2026

An almost familiar scene of Mount Street in the heart of the city ........ just 89 years ago

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Now here is a picture of the city which is at once both familiar but not familiar. Mount Street, 1937 We are on Mount Street with Cen...

Memories of that other Thames ……

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 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...

On finding Mr. Howarth's bottle with the galloping horse ...... on Cheltenham Road

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  Now here is a mystery which involves a bottle, George Howard of Thornburn Street and our own Cheltenham Road. Yesterday David posted the ...
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Monday, 19 October 2026

Going to the Art Gallery in Piccadilly Gardens in 1929 ........ the one we never got

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Now what do you do with a big hole in the ground in the centre of Manchester? Today of course it would be sold for development and pret...
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