Andrew Simpson

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Tuesday, 27 January 2026

Light the Darkness ............ today from 4pm ...... Holocaust Memorial Day

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  Each year people from across the UK take part in a national moment for Holocaust Memorial Day. At 4pm on 27 January people across the nati...

The Woolwich we have lost

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My sister and her husband had warned me just how much the centre of Woolwich had changed but when you don’t go there very often it is easy ...

Hampton House ......... and a mystery down on Edge Lane

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This is about as close as we are going to get to Hampton House. The garden wall of Hampton House, 1959 It stood just a little back fr...

A quiet day in Hallaton with a war memorial

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This is the war memorial in the village of Hallaton. The memorial, 2024 We came across it on a hot sunny day last week as we made our way th...

At St Chad's in Saddleworth with the remarkable Mr Banks sometime in 1880

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Now I am back with Mr Banks that remarkable photographer.  Selling a photograph circa 1880 He was one of those self made Victorians w...

Ida Bradshaw Chorlton historian ...... and friend

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There will be many in our community who were saddened at the news that Ida Bradshaw has died. Ida She always styled herself the "unoffi...
Monday, 26 January 2026

Heaps of history ….. and the Market Harborough challenge

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  I must confess I had never come across that 17th century timber building in Market Harborough which once served as the towns grammar schoo...
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