Andrew Simpson

The story of one street in Ancoats, and the people who lived and worked there. North of the river, 1819 Homer Street was located jus...

Well Hall in the April of 1844 I am fascinated by the people who history has neglected. The rich, the powerful and those of influence...

Now here is a little piece of our past which makes me very happy. The picture was taken in 1980 and confirms that I wasn’t imagining th...

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...