Andrew Simpson

I am back with that slim book which celebrated 100 years of civic achievement here in Manchester. Your City, Manchester 1838-1938 was ...

Charles Croton was one of our taxi drivers and successful enough to have moved from horse and cab to motor vehicle by the 1920s and wa...

It will have been sometime in the summer of 1979 when I wandered back to the Cutty Sark on Ballast Quay. Ballast Quay, 1979 A decade earlier...

Now yesterday I was on Angel Street exploring the stories behind the doors of the lodging houses, of which there were many in the surroundin...

It is a story I have twice come back to having had a stab at finding out where and when a firm set up here in Chorlton making cars. Shaw...

A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watc...

I have spent part of the afternoon looking through a wonderful collection of pictures of Manchester from the late 19th century . They ...