Andrew Simpson

So long before the construction of motorways and airports wiped out some of our favourite buildings  there was Corporation Street.  The syna...

Now I do miss Eltham, it was where I grew up and it is a place I was very happy. But at the age of 19 I went north following a girlfrie...

Now, when Ian Collier posted this picture on social media  of his family outside 101 Beech Road I knew there was a story. 101 Beech Road Tod...

So yes, Go east young professional and grow up with a town half as old as time mangles an injunction often attributed to Horace Greeley abou...

Today I am going to revisit Akenfield by Ronald Blythe a favourite book which I first came across in the mid-1970s. By then it had been on t...

It began as a discussion with Paul over the identity of this brewery on the corner of Ledger Street which was behind Miller Street.  Le...

Now I have decided to run a few pictures of what Eltham Palace looked like in the 18th and 19th centuries. It had long been abandoned a...