Andrew Simpson

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Friday, 29 May 2026

Down at West Point in 1911 before the Seymour Hotel ........ looking for the story of Jonathan Brown .... gardener and expert orchid grower

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Now the Seymour has passed into history and soon memories will fade that this was the last pub before the long dry walk along Upper Chorlto...

Walking back in time through Eltham, Charlton and Greenwich with the pictures of Llwyd Roberts

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Now anyone with an interest in Eltham’s history will have come across the pictures of Mr Llwyd Roberts . * They first appeared in the K...

Looking out from Barlow Moor Road in the summer of 1960

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There is a singular lack of images of Chorlton during the middle decades of the last century. Look through the collections and you can find ...
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Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester ......... nu 56 the vanished fourteen and the story of the BBC

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The lost streets in 1894 There will still be plenty of people who remember the close network of streets and houses that stretched back ...
Thursday, 28 May 2026

The Welsh Marches .... a bit of history to listen to ..... today on the wireless

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  Now this is one I listened to and enjoyed. And of course learned a lot.   It's the latests from Radio 4's In Our Time "At the...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 4 St Anne's Alley

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Now St Ann’s Alley is one of those little walk throughs that it is easy to miss. Added to which it is not one that I often vent...

Scenes from a lost Chorlton, Claude Road in 1964

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Now the old petrol pump stood at the point where Claude Road does a right turn before meeting Reynard Road and running off into the Ville...
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