Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Wednesday, 15 April 2026
The lost Hulme and Moss Side .....
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Now I have been a great fan of Roger Shelley’s photographs for over a decade, ever since he shared a collection of pictures he took of a gro...
William & Julia Relph of the Rising Sun a promise fulfilled
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This is William Relph who ran the Rising Sun on the High Street from sometime in the 1880s till his death in 1909. Now you can never be...
Rediscovering our rural past, Thomas Ellwood and Mrs W C Williamson
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We owe a great debt to the historians of the late 19th century who captured the memories of the people who lived in south Manchester w...
Tuesday, 14 April 2026
An afternoon in Chorlton …… with a history of Withington
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It was another of those well attended meetings at Chorlton Good Neighbours * and we were not disappointed by David Rydeheard’s talk on the h...
On Edge Street in 1969 ........... waiting for something to happen
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This is how I remember Edge Street, which is part of that warren of streets which is now known as the Northern Quarter. Back in the lat...
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"I had been bull ward in the bull ring, and once kept one of the gamest bulls in the country,” bull baiting on Chorlton Green
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Now every so often you come across accounts of the bull baiting that went on in the township. The Bowling Green late 19th century T...
My Eltham ………… half a century ago
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Now, for all of us who left Eltham, and pretty much never really went back finding pictures of the place in the year we left can be bitter s...
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