Andrew Simpson

I like the way stories have a habit of coming around all over again. And so it is with the Penny Savings Bank.  It was set up in 1887 a...

This is the c ontinuing story  of one house in Well Hall Road and of the people who lived there including our family. * Now I can’t ...

Rochdale Road and Swan Street 1900 This is another of those images of Manchester street life by Samuel Lawrence Coulthurst. It was ta...

We are sometime in the summer of 1910 and judging by the collection of young people I think it must be dinner time. A few are young e...

Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...

It is just thirty-three years since our lychgate was last restored and I missed the anniversary back in April so here courtesy of Andrew ...

Our house in 2014 The centenary of the Progress Estate has long passed. Now we can lay claim to about thirty of those 100 years havin...