Andrew Simpson

Now I can be fairly confident that Mr Banks took this picture of Oxford Street sometime before 1912, but more about that later. In the ...

Enough said. Location; Woolwich Picture; the ferry, Woolwich, 2012, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

I am the first to admit that it is lazy history to claim that one house  can reflect the story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy from the mid 19th cent...

This is the Old House in Kibworth Harcourt.  The Old House, 2024 It dates from 1678 and along with its garden walls is a Grade 1 Listed Buil...

Now I grant you this isn’t the zippiest of titles, but it does the business. We are standing at the junction of Barlow Moor Road and Wilbrah...

Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...

Uppermill circa 1890 Robert Banks was one of those remarkable Victorian self made men, who went from being a woollen piercer in a mill ...