Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 19 October 2026
Going to the Art Gallery in Piccadilly Gardens in 1929 ........ the one we never got
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Now what do you do with a big hole in the ground in the centre of Manchester? Today of course it would be sold for development and pret...
The lost building on Barlow Moor Road ……….
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No matter how much you uncover about the story of Chorlton, there is always something new. 1927 So, a while ago Kelsey Broome sent me...
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The ship …….. a lighter …. and the River
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Now I am the first to admit as pictures go these might not be the ones to enter for “The most exciting picture of the century”, but they are...
Sunday, 18 October 2026
Walking with history …….. Bucatini Cacio e Pepe
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It is one of the obvious observations that some of the simplest of dishes remain both fun to make and above all are totally delicious. Bucat...
How we lived and what we did in 1938
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I am back with that slim book which celebrated 100 years of civic achievement here in Manchester. Your City, Manchester 1838-1938 was ...
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Hailing a cab in Chorlton in the 1920s
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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...
Pinching pictures ……ever acceptable?
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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...
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