Andrew Simpson
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Wednesday, 4 November 2026
Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 19 ........... Back College Land and the vanished Press House Steps
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Back College Land, 2016 Now Back College Land looks like it should have some dark and unseemly past with more than a few dreadful tale...
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The London of 1949
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The Pool of London in 1909 This is the Pool of London in 1909. Fifty years later given a few changes and a bit of bomb damage and it ...
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Who pinched a Chorlton pub?
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Now when you have spent a decade and a half crawling over Chorlton’s past it is always nice to find something new, and something you didn’t ...
Tuesday, 3 November 2026
All Saints Day ...... that day of remembrance
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Mine wasn’t a religious upbringing. Remembering the dead, 2026 Father on occasion might hum an old Scottish Protestant marching song while...
New pubs for old and a disappointed confectioner
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I rather think there must have been something in the air in the early months of 1907. In the February there were two applications in f...
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So what was Southern Street in Castlefield once like?
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Southern Street in 2003 This was Southern Street, off Liverpool Road during a chunk of the 1980s and into the next two decades it was ...
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Round About A Pound A Week ......... London life and London Poor ..... 1913
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“Take a tram from Victoria to Vauxhall Station. Get out under the railway arch which faces Vauxhall Bridge, and there you will find K...
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