Andrew Simpson

Fry's Buildings numbered as 264-275 in 1844 John Fry is another of those people that has faded pretty much from history. He appea...

This is one of those pictures taken by Tony Walker from one of his own model planes sometime in the 1980s.  To the right at the bott...

Now for anyone born before 1970 there will be nothing odd about a bus stop in Albert Square, or the parked up black cabs. Equally the p...

I know more about the farms here in the township during the first 60 years of the 19th century than I do about them in the second half of t...

Court Yard, 1858-73 “If you take up a position upon the spot where what we now call the Court-yard meets the High Street, you will be s...

Of all of the snaps of Manchester I have featured this is one of my favourites. We are in Albert Square sometime between the late 1920s...

Now I have been waiting for The Dawn of Didsbury Jewry 1861-1926 to arrive in the bookshop. I was alerted to Julia Maine’s contribution to t...