Andrew Simpson

I like the way that old postcards can reveal our past in many different ways. It’s every much as good as a detective story. You sta...

I like this postcard of the Cathedral. It combines a picture of the building along with the coat of arms of the city and an equally att...

Our Jillian often gets her best pictures first thing in the morning when the light is sharp, the air is fresh and there is a promise of...

Angel Street, 1901 Sometimes a phrase captures your imagination, and so it is with "Sellers of Sleep", which is a French, t...

1948 For years this banner took pride of place on a wall in the Committee Rooms above the Hardy Lane Co-op store on Barlow Moor Road . ...

 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...

  Today sees the publication of Chris Hall's new book on the Spanish Civil War. He recently told me that   "my new book British Vol...