Andrew Simpson

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Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Walking through the lost Hulme and Moss Side

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  Now I have been a great fan of Roger Shelley’s photographs for over a decade, ever since he shared a collection of pictures he took of a g...

Chorlton Brook and the Cliffs at Holland Wood in 1847 ... part two

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Holland Wood, by the Cliffs along Chorlton Brook, circa 1907 We are in Holland Wood, sometime at the beginning of the 20th cent...
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Walking Woolwich and Eltham in 1948 .... no 1

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Now I am back with my copy of the Official Guide to Woolwich which was published by the council. It includes Eltham and Plumstead, and was ...
Monday, 21 September 2026

One more bit of the jigsaw ….. the mysterious secret of the hidden Chorlton fourteen

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Some stories just keep giving and t he hidden fourteen photographs found in a house in Chorlton just  keeps giving. * I was first alerted...

Vanished Manchester communities ...........

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Now I have been a great fan of Roger Shelley’s photographs for over a decade, ever since he shared a collection of pictures he took of a gro...

On walking along Academy Road out of Woolwich in 1906

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Just occasionally I slide into nostalgia and this 1906 postcard of the Royal Military Academy in Woolwich does it for me. Now given tha...
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Chorlton Brook

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It winds its way across Chorlton from the border with Withington, having traversed the city, taking on different names in that journey, a...
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