Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Saturday, 24 January 2026
The picture …. the municipal venture ….. and half a mystery solved
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Here is a picture I keep coming back to. At the Electricity showrooms, undated It is a popular one which keeps cropping up on social media a...
A lost Chorlton bottle ….. the Beech Road offi ……… and a trip back to a Dickensian Manchester
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It started with the find of a broken bottle in a garden on Wilton Road. The lost and found bottle, 2023 My friend Declan wrote “Hi Andrew. N...
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Lost Woolwich .......... no 4 a football team
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Now of all the places I knew in my youth I have to say Woolwich is one of those that has undergone some of the most radical change. So...
That amazing Mr Banks ....... his pictures and other practitioners of his trade
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Now I remain fascinated by what can turn up in an old cupboard, under the floor boards or in this case the family picture album. And fo...
Friday, 23 January 2026
Heaps of cars … missing trains ….. and Central Railway Station in colour
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I missed the end of Central Railway Station by just a couple of months, and it was not for another decade that I stumbled across the place. ...
The Twilight Sleep Home for painless child birth, a chance conversation and a story revealed
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Now it is another one of those stories I thought had come to an end, but the Twilight Sleep Home at Westonby on Edge Lane has popped up aga...
The Woolwich I remember
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I like this picture of Woolwich for lots or reasons, but not least because it is how I remember it with the buses negotiating their way p...
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