Andrew Simpson

 I have been thinking of my friend Lawrence who died recently, and as you do I have been reflecting on over 40 years of friendship. Lawrence...

This is Beech Road in 1935, and I doubt that anyone at the time would have thought that ninety years later it would be the centre of Chorlto...

An occasional series on the stories behind the  book on Manchester and the Great War** All deaths in Manchester, November 1918 Now h...

Now for many years those of my friends who share my love of Eltham, Woolwich and Plumstead have sung the praises of the two volumes of “Reco...

Now if like me you are old enough to remember those letters to the Times on hearing the first cuckoo of spring, here is another. In thi...

Someone will know the exact name of this piece, along with the artist, but for now I will call it the Pompidou Woman. The Pompidou Woman, 19...

The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since.* The tree, ...