Andrew Simpson
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Sunday, 30 November 2025
Walking the streets of Manchester in 1870 ......... part 3 ........testing the story of dark secrets and awful tragedies in Wood Street
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Now it is very easy to fall into the trap of using newspaper reports to draw a picture of the past . And so far that is what I have d...
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The story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries ............. part 2 Mr Riddle, a pile of fish and bag of cakes
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The Travellers Rest, 1901 The continuing story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries For just seventy years number 70...
Turning off Plumstead High Street and finding a Saxon Church .....
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Now you would think that I would have known the church of St Nicholas. After all I worked on the High Street and both our Jillian and E...
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Saturday, 29 November 2025
Walking the streets of Manchester in 1870 ......... part 2 ........Deansgate and Davenport’ Court "where scarcely a night passes but some robbery is committed”
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Now I have to say the stretch of Deansgate from St Mary’s Gate down to Victoria Street Bridge is dismal. Looking up Deansgate from Vic...
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The story of one building in Chorlton over three centuries ............. part 1 a beginning
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Number 70 in 2014 Now over three centuries a building can pretty much be many things to many people and so it is with number 70 Beech R...
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When a smelly sewer was just one too many
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Now I am pretty much sure I am going to be corrected today or at the very least attract someone who knows more about 19th century sewer ven...
Friday, 28 November 2025
Walking the streets of Manchester in 1870 ......... of privies closed courts and foul passages..... Ludgate Street
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Now Ludgate Street which runs from Rochdale Road into Angel Meadow should have fared better. New gates, 1908, a closed court There ar...
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