Andrew Simpson

In the course of the last few days I have got to know a lot about Mr. Bryce Smith, who lived at Rye Bank in Chorlton, described himself as ...

  We are on Upper Brook Street with a group of houses about to be demolished. But never underestimate the determination of an advertising c...

Now one of the best things about history is when you get to touch it. And for me it doesn’t that matter much whether it’s a Roman coin or a...

Now I wonder just how packed the Cheetham Assembly Rooms were, when the “Full RAF Rhythm Band” played on the Saturday of November 25 1944. ...

Now I know there will be plenty of pictures of the library knocking around and I dare say some better quality versions of this one which dat...

It’s not much of a story really but it does point to the changes that had been taking place in Chorlton over the last two decades of th...

I am looking at a collection of photographs found in a house. They are mix of images all of which I guess date from the middle decades of th...