Andrew Simpson

Now I have always taken those sayings of my youth for granted, and very rarely pondered on their origins or how they have survived from chi...

  There is a lot to be said for the recycling man with his van. I say man, but there is more than one, and as like as not it will be a woman...

This is one of those pictures which I never dreamed I would come across. We are looking at Hartley’s College and it is another from V...

Now when I want to fall back into the London of the 1850s, there is no better source than the observations of Henry Mayhew whose description...

Gun Street in 1844 Now this is another one of the walks I would like to have taken in the spring of 1851. It would have started just ...

We are in the grounds of the Independent College in Whalley Range and the year is 1934. Our picture is a postcard which “R” says “is a...

To be fair Hoyle Street is still there, running from Fairfield Street down to the Ring Road. But I think it cuts a sad appearance, and today...