Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Sunday, 21 June 2026
Longford Hall and our own Chorlton radical
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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 ...
Stories of Salford Cinemas …………. Part 1 …….. A to K
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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.* ...
Cutting the grass in Mottingham …. in them olden days
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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...
Saturday, 20 June 2026
Lost Manchester Streets …. Nu 98 …… the one that never was
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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...
When they stole the name of Little Stable Street
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History has not been kind to Little Stable Street. Looking down Salmon Street, 2023 First it stole its name some time in the 1870s and then ...
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Of Waterloo sunsets, Peckham Rye and the Pleasuance at Well Hall
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Now it is just one of those things that you miss where you grew up. Coming home, 2013 It is such an obvious statement but is none t...
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A lost bridge across the Brook
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Now I think it is time for a walk across the meadows in search of Mosley Bridge . It was a small bridge over the Brook put up by Charl...
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