Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 12 January 2026
Travelling the Broads ….. part 1
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I am a great fan of other people’s pictures. It’s a mix of reasons from experiencing new places to seeing those places through the lens of ...
The picture of Annie Magee on Hawthorn Lane and that young Chorlton bandsman
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Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value. So here is a picture from Pet...
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Of Eltham, Manchester and an artist from Wales
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Now I like the way things have a habit of falling together in a most unexpected way. Manchester School of Art 1900 So recently when ...
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A camera ..... a day in 1979 ..... and a lost destination
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I think l was was on one of the roads running parallel to Portland Street, and l thought the building was the former Bank of England close...
Sunday, 11 January 2026
The train now arriving is the 13.20 from 1979
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I am well aware it isn’t the most original of titles but it pretty much sums up where we are. At the back of the 1970s I bought a new c...
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Looking for cows, farm buildings and a milkman on Brookburn Road in 1927
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Now I am the first to admit that you would be hard put to fit this wooden door into the history of a farm in Chorlton. Outside the stab...
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In Blackheath in the summer of 1977
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Now there is a story here about the history of the postal service. But that is for another day. For now I shall ponder on what Tranqui...
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