Andrew Simpson

Pemberton Arcade, Barlow Moor Road “Just a sixpenny bus ride from Piccadilly, Manchester is Chorlton-cum-Hardy – the little green mead...

I have been a fan of Manchester’s Art Gallery* for nearly sixty years, and I have my own favourite galleries and paintings. And along with t...

Now I am a great fan of the work of Mr Llwyd Roberts. He was during the 1930s our artist in residence and during that time produced a h...

To be fair shops like these were doing the business for decades before this picture was taken in 1970. But within a decade and bit, independ...

Now, I never underestimate how a story can grow and shoot off in the most unexpected directions. The caption on the photograph says Whi...

Now, with the passage of the decades it will become more difficult to find people who parked up in GMex. In fact even the name GMex wil...

Woolwich Common, 1970 Some memories stay with you and are as vivid now as they were then. I was sixteen, it was the summer of 1966 a...