Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 19 January 2026
Lost and forgotten breweries of Manchester ......... nu 1 what a lot
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It began as a discussion with Paul over the identity of this brewery on the corner of Ledger Street which was behind Miller Street. Le...
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A lost Eltham Palace ........... nu 3 Eltham Palace from the north west
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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...
Cycling to a beauty contest …….. “the pretty entrants” of 1937
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I bet there will be someone who remembers Riding’s Stores Ltd. They sold cycles and advertised themselves as “The largest Quality Cycle Spec...
Sunday, 18 January 2026
Lost stories in a forgotten street ……. the one behind Deansgate
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Now it is easy to shudder and feel outrage at the accounts of housing conditions in the poor parts of Manchester in the first half of the 19...
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A little bit of history in the back garden ……. “Scrubbs Cloudy Ammonia”
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Two bottles ..... with Scrubbs to the left, 2023 It is a given that if you have a garden at some point something will turn up, and if you ar...
A lost Eltham Palace nu 2 .............. The Banqueting Hall in 1782
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Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...
Saturday, 17 January 2026
D Day ...... AD 43 .......Portrait Of An Age ..... and the death of General Gordan
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Pan Edition 1961 I have begun re-reading The Great Invasion by Leonard Cottrell. It was first published in 1958 and describes the Rom...
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