Andrew Simpson

Now here are two images of Chorlton which at first glance look familiar.   We are on the allotments with the Park to our rear looking...

There will be quite a few who remember the High Street like this. I t is the summer of 1977, the Silver Jubilee celebrations are still ...

It’s been a while since I have been in the library and had quite forgotten the simplicity of the design. It was built in fulfilment of...

Now it is Sunday April 7th 1957 and I am on Chorlton railway station waiting for the train from Central which left at 9.45 am and is due...

Forty-seven years is a pretty big chunk of any one’s life and in my case falls short of the six decades I have lived here in the city. ...

This is another of those scenes of our High Street which I suspect has long faded from living memory. We are standing a little past the...

Now I have lived across from the Rec for half a century , and I never tire of the place*. It has hosted concerts, the Beech Road Festival, h...