Andrew Simpson

I am looking at number 25 Court Yard, and there in the picture are Mrs Annie Morris and her sons David and Harold. I don’t know the dat...

Now I would like to think that one of these young people could be Ethel Ward. Students at St Andrews School, 1920 She was living wi...

  Now I am pretty confident that this one will bring up a rich collection of memories. It continued trading into the 1980s and was a wo...

Now, I may be wrong, but I don’t think there is a history of Didsbury’s own brass band. The Didsbury Brass Band, 1985-1986 Of course, like a...

Historian and author Andrew Simpson and local artist and author Peter Topping will take you on a journey through the history of The Arts Fes...

Now here’s a story that I can’t claim any credit for but which I suspect will be new to many people. Middle Park, 1873 It started w...

This was when the parish church yard got its last makeover. But it will have been in the early 1980s and involved clearing away many of ...