Andrew Simpson

Now if I wanted to walk to Stretford from the village in the late spring of 1847 I would have used the old road . It started at Hardy L...

Now I like this picture of the parish church.   It dates from around 1903 and comes from Some Records of Eltham 1060-1903 which is a ma...

This will be one of the easiest Salford stories, comes in two parts , and is nothing more than a list of all the Salford cinemas in 1928.*...

H ere is the story of our own radical who lived on the site of what was Longford Hall at the beginning of the 19th century.  This I have ...

This will be one of the easiest Salford stories, comes in two parts , and is nothing more than a list of all the Salford cinemas in 1928.* ...

I like this picture for several reasons, not least because it is one I have never seen before. It comes from a delightful slim volume entitl...

This is Sally’s Yard and it sounds like it should have been here for ever. Or at least from when Hulme Street was cut sometime in the earl...