Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 18 May 2026
Losing another Chorlton ghost sign …….
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I rather think if I go back later this afternoon this ghost sign will have gone. It was uncovered as work progresses on what was “Close” , t...
A Didsbury picture ……. an 1885 sales catalogue ….. and the story of Johnson, Clapham & Morris .... makers of all things galvanized iron
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Now, I remain fascinated at the route which took me from a framed page of a sales catalogue on a wall in a house in Didsbury via a shop in ...
What did you find in the cellar of Hough End Hall in the summer of 1965?
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If you are of a certain age you will probably remember playing in Hough End Hall. Of course we are talking about the 1960s when the pla...
Trolleybus 698 Woolwich-Bexleyheath ….. now that’s a zippy title
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Now I have my old friend Richard Woods to thank for igniting memories of trolley buses. Tolleybus no. 1768, 2014 He sent over a link to a t...
Sunday, 17 May 2026
The lives behind the doors ….. numbers 2-14 St Andrew’s Square
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Now, it has become quite popular to take a house and tell its story over time. St Andrew's Square, 1849 Long before a certain television...
Touching home ……… two buses and heaps of Well Hall memories
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Sometimes you need nothing more than a picture to create a flood of warm memories. So here are two from my friend Chrissy Rose who like me g...
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The photograph, a house on South Meade, and a mystery
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I am looking at a picture of a group or workmen outside a house on South Meade and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything unusua...
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