Andrew Simpson

Stories, people and events

Monday, 23 February 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester nu 40 ......... Stevenson Place

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Now it all depends on how you come across Stevenson Place. From Little Lever Street, 2016 Enter it from Little Lever Street and you p...

How we shopped on Beech Road in 1969 and thirty years later

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First the apology, which is simply I have lost the names of the authors of this shopping survey, but I hope they won’t mind me reproducin...

One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 22 ........... wishing for the coal hole

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family. * 294, 1973 Now ...
Sunday, 22 February 2026

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ...nu 68 a rare glimpse of King Street in the 1930s

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Most of the images we see of Manchester in the late 19th and early 20th centuries were the work of professional photographers.  They focu...

Pictures from Beech Road ……… Buonissimo, Muriel and Richard and the bar with lots of names

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Now here's a vanished scene, well  almost. They must date from before 2000, when I swapped smelly photography for digital. And...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 21 ........... the unbroken chain

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This is the continuing story of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family.* Now I think it wi...
Saturday, 21 February 2026

Outside Beech Road Police Station ........ revealing a little of the life of PC Frederick George Ross

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This is Police Constable Frederick George Ross standing with his colleagues outside the police station on Beech Road. Now I can’t be ...
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