Andrew Simpson

There will still be some people who remember the close network of streets and houses that stretched back from Oxford Road to the Medlock, an...

Eltham in the 1830s I am back with the post office in Eltham and in particular two men who straddle the history of letters, parcels and...

Now the thing about very old buildings is that usually we focus on that very old bit. So it is with Hough End Hall built in 1596 and fo...

As promised, this is a follow up story featuring the woman who but for her surname being marginally higher alphabetically would have been th...

Now, for me, these images perfectly capture   that time when I was growing up. And I suspect it will be the same for many others wh...

We are on the meadows, when people still worked and lived there. Now everyone knows about the sewage works which were first established...

The caption says "The Old Vicarage as seen from what is now Sherrard Road.  In the distance the Church.  On the right the old Cheq...