Andrew Simpson

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Monday, 12 October 2026

Lunch time on the green by the lych gate in 1910

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We are sometime in the summer of 1910 and judging by the collection of young people I think it must be dinner time. A few are young e...
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Walking the Thames

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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...
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A story of that iconic bit of Chorlton from 1993

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It is just thirty-three years since our lychgate was last restored and I missed the anniversary back in April so here courtesy of Andrew ...
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One hundred years of one house in Well Hall part 5 living through the Great War

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Our house in 2014 The centenary of the Progress Estate has long passed. Now we can lay claim to about thirty of those 100 years havin...

The one we have all forgotten ...... in the Square in 1978

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I say the one we have all forgotten, but for many it will be a scene they have never experienced. We are in St Ann’s Square looking tow...

London Road …….. January 24th 1959 …………..

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This remains one of my all-time favourites from Eddie Johnson’s book on Manchester Railway Termini.* Until recently I had not got round to a...
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Sunday, 11 October 2026

Loons, lava lamps and growing up ............ the 1970's

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Larva lamps I have known Now it is odd the way that some decades get the thumbs up and others are relegated to the dustbin of history ....
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