Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
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...
Saturday, 17 October 2026
In search of the sellers of sleep on Angel Street …..
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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...
When Chorlton made cars ………..
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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...
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Walking the River ......... by the Cutty Sark
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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...
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