Andrew Simpson

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Tuesday, 15 September 2026

The Library ..... the pub ..... and the oilman .... with a thank you to Village Eltham

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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...
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A new park for Chorlton?

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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...
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Monday, 14 September 2026

Fourteen random pictures in search of a story …. photographs from a Chorlton house

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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...

Just when you thought you knew the age of the Trevor Arms on Beech Road

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The Trevor was my local from 1976 well into the middle of the next decade and was a busy and happy place. At the time and until quite r...
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Along time in the story of a house in Eltham

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Cliefden House in 1909 Now I am back at Cliefden House. This grand 18th century property is still there on the High Street opposite P...
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Out on Bury Road in 1949 ..............

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Now, I like this picture, for lots of different reasons. It was taken just a few months before I was born, out along Bury Old Road. O...
Sunday, 13 September 2026

Odd facts about Chorlton no 1 ...... when Mr and Mrs Royce lived on Holland Road

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Now I like the way that I sometimes get asked to research a bit of Chorlton’s history, at which point I have to declare that it isn’t diffi...
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