Andrew Simpson
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Sunday, 9 August 2026
A bit of history on Beech Road ……
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It’s Sunday and so it’s left over day. Left over Sunday, 2026 One of the joys of growing old is the sheer reservoir of food memories that ...
Snaps of Chorlton No 11, a badge and a festival in 1984 not bad for one post
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An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. Cheating really, not so much a snap more a picture of the...
Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 2 Pool Fold
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Back Pool Fold is one of those twisty little thoroughfares which you think must have a rich and varied history and at sometime have offered...
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Walking down Sidcup High Street in the August of 1961
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Now it would be a full three years after this picture postcard of Sidcup High Street was sent before we settled in Eltham and a lot longe...
Saturday, 8 August 2026
Travelling on the railway in 1830
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I wish I could have rattled along on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway sometime in the 1830s. But I can't so instead I will offe...
So no more the second hand shops of Chorlton ......
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If you can remember a time before the Chorlton bar culture, you will be able to name at least one of our second hand shops. Back in the...
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The city over the river ………….
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Now yesterday I posted a story of Greenwich Park and the view from the hill across the River. And it prompted Douglas White to post one of h...
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