Andrew Simpson

Now I like the way that stories become personal, and so it is with two pieces I wrote on  Charles and Reginal Croton who were two our taxi...

It will have been sometime in the summer of 1979 that I came across this grave stone in the parish church in Ashton-Under-Lyne. The gra...

My old bridge circa 1940s I cannot even begin to count the number of times I walked under the railway bridge which spanned Well Hall Ro...

Well Hall Odeon, circa 1960s It is pretty much one of those things that when you live somewhere you take it for granted. Growing up i...

From the 1928 church Bazaar book I wonder if I will ever find out anything about Miss Wright, President of the Girls’ Friendly Socie...

Now, I am never surprised at how easy it is to get sidetracked during a piece of research. And so today, while crawling over back copie...

Now I have always liked this painting, and it perfectly conjures up a Sunday on a warm summer’s day in a Manchester park. Writing in 19...