Andrew Simpson

Historian and author Andrew Simpson and local artist and author Peter Topping will take you on a journey through the history of The Arts Fes...

Now here’s a story that I can’t claim any credit for but which I suspect will be new to many people. Middle Park, 1873 It started w...

This was when the parish church yard got its last makeover. But it will have been in the early 1980s and involved clearing away many of ...

You won’t find Homer Street. St Andrew's School, 1910 It disappeared sometime between 1934 and 1938 and I guess was part of an ea...

Now this is one I am listening to. It is the story of the residents of Weimar during the rise and reign of Hitler in 10 episodes based on t...

Memories of the Milk Maid in Piccadilly will fast be fading from living memories. The Milk Maid, 1906 Mine is sitting in the Milk Maid looki...

This is a photograph of London Road where it joins Store Street and we are in 1895. London Road, 1895 There is nothing very remarkable about...