Andrew Simpson

I am looking at a collection of photographs found in a house. They are mix of images all of which I guess date from the middle decades of th...

The Trevor was my local from 1976 well into the middle of the next decade and was a busy and happy place. At the time and until quite r...

Cliefden House in 1909 Now I am back at Cliefden House. This grand 18th century property is still there on the High Street opposite P...

Now, I like this picture, for lots of different reasons. It was taken just a few months before I was born, out along Bury Old Road. O...

Now I like the way that I sometimes get asked to research a bit of Chorlton’s history, at which point I have to declare that it isn’t diffi...

Now there are many ways of recreating a walk up the High Street on a day log ago. One of the easiest is to use photographs from the pas...

I came across David’s story of Collar House in Prestbury and its role in the last world war as an annexe to St Mary’s in Manchester.  He ki...