Andrew Simpson

I wish I could  have rattled along on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway sometime in the 1830s. But I can't so instead I will offe...

If you can remember a time before the Chorlton bar culture, you will be able to name at least one of our second hand shops. Back in the...

Now yesterday I posted a story of Greenwich Park and the view from the hill across the River. And it prompted Douglas White to post one of h...

Now I never tire of guide books and so here we are with Bradshaw’s Illustrated Handbook to London and its Environs which was published in 1...

I have been reflecting on those awful diseases that stalked our cities, towns and villages just over 170 years ago. Of these Cholera was r...

Take a former front room in a house on Barlow Moor Road and in the late 1970s into the next decade you had a bookshop. It was only open on a...

Sometimes a picture captures a moment which with hindsight allows you to see that things were just about to change .  Here is another ...