Andrew Simpson

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Friday, 4 September 2026

Riding the Stang ….. and other customs from the 1840s …….. walking Chorlton’s past this coming Sunda

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Now if you want to know about Chorlton’s past, one of the best ways is to walk it in the company of a local historian and heaps of intereste...

A Labour candidate ......the Beswick Co-op store ..... and a day in 1967

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Now I wonder if Reg, the Labour candidate was successful. He was the Labour Party candidate in the by-election held on Thursday June 24...
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Eltham from the pen of Llwyd Roberts ....... nu 3 the old Brewery 1929

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Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts. He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a h...
Thursday, 3 September 2026

What did the Norman’s Ever do for Us? ….. all day on the wireless today

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Well, they were either a marauding band of super gangsters who stole a country, or just another group who crossed the seas to come, settle a...

On Shooters Hill ………………… with We Anchor in Hope

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Now I have no memory of the pub We Anchor in Hope. But then when I roamed over the woods and down Shooter’s Hill and on to Welling, I w...
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It happened here in Chorlton and also in Didsbury .............. National Baby Week .... July 1917

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J ust a century ago a crowd assembled on the Rec opposite our house on Beech Road and listened to Mrs Jane Redford, Mr Peach and Miss Place...

Who moved that bus stop? …………. and other challenges to my memory ….Didsbury …. 1967

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It started with a conversation with my friend Barbarella about the lost shops of Didsbury, and in particular, the stretch from M&S to t...
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