Andrew Simpson

Stories, people and events

Thursday, 10 September 2026

The mysterious house on Whitelow Road and an intriguing story

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Now, I never underestimate how a story can grow and shoot off in the most unexpected directions. The caption on the photograph says Whi...
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When G Mex was a car park ......

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Now, with the passage of the decades it will become more difficult to find people who parked up in GMex. In fact even the name GMex wil...
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Home thoughts from abroad nu 2 ................. walking home from Woolwich on a summer’s night in 1966

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Woolwich Common, 1970 Some memories stay with you and are as vivid now as they were then. I was sixteen, it was the summer of 1966 a...
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Wednesday, 9 September 2026

On Barlow Moor Road at the Macfadyn Memorial Church sometime in 1929 with a postcard from mother

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Recently I was at the Macfadyn Memorial Church on Barlow Moor Road, sometime between 1903 and 1913. And today I am back again at alm...

Looking down on a vanished Castlefield ....... circa 1972

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Now it is easy to forget just how run down, neglected and pretty dismal was the area around the Castlefield Canal Basin just a few decades ...
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The Welcome Inn ................... the early days

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Now some stories just have a habit of not wanting to go away. They stay hanging around challenging you to go off and discover something...
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Tuesday, 8 September 2026

Past Kemp's Corner and up to Redgate Farm in the summer of 1900

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Looking across the Isles, 1882 This is another one of those walks I would like to have taken if only to set the contrast from what I...
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