Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Thursday, 19 February 2026
Eighty-six years in the story of the Rec on Beech Road
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I don’t usually do then and now pictures, and certainly not without a story, but today I shall. Here are two both from the Wilton end...
One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 17 ........... the Gas Board
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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.* It is funny how...
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Out to East Didsbury from Albert Square ……. on the new tram
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I say the new tram, because quite clearly this wasn’t the old fashioned tall stately tram which rattled its way around the city at the st...
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Remembering the Spanish Civil War
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Wednesday, 18 February 2026
Travels with a badge collection ……. three decades of silly and angry protest
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Today I have been looking at my old badge collection which starts in 1966 and peters out in the late 1990s. Upset Her, 1980 Sadly, there are...
The painting …. the actor …. and the exhibition
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This is Ira Aldridge and my Wikipedia tells me he “was an American-born British actor, playwright, and theatre manager, known for his portr...
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Mrs Martha Thorpe, the slaughter house and a new row of shops on Beech Road
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Now when Mrs Thorpe opened her “slaughter house” in 1879 on Beech Road I doubt she thought that she would still be there selling cuts of me...
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