Andrew Simpson
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Monday, 12 October 2026
Lunch time on the green by the lych gate in 1910
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We are sometime in the summer of 1910 and judging by the collection of young people I think it must be dinner time. A few are young e...
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Walking the Thames
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Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...
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The one we have all forgotten ...... in the Square in 1978
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I say the one we have all forgotten, but for many it will be a scene they have never experienced. We are in St Ann’s Square looking tow...
Sunday, 11 October 2026
Loons, lava lamps and growing up ............ the 1970's
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Larva lamps I have known Now it is odd the way that some decades get the thumbs up and others are relegated to the dustbin of history ....
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At the Tower of London in the summer of 1955 and other childhood memories
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Outside the Tower with Nana, 1955 I can’t say I remember this day at the Tower of London. It would have been I think in the summer ...
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Looking down on Chorlton in 1927
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I like aerial photographs of Chorlton and this one has the lot. Looking down on my bit of Chorlton, circa 1930s-40s My friend Bill se...
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Saturday, 10 October 2026
On becoming your dad
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I have become my dad which I suppose is not that surprising really. It is less the physical appearance although that is clearly there i...
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