Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 22 June 2026
Two pictures….. one canal …. and 47 years …. walking the Rochdale Canal
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It was sometime back in 1979 when armed with just a couple of cameras and heaps of curiosity I wandered down the Rochdale Canal from Princes...
Walking into Stretford along Edge Lane in 1847
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Now if I wanted to walk to Stretford from the village in the late spring of 1847 I would have used the old road . It started at Hardy L...
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Looking at the parish church from the south in 1903
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Now I like this picture of the parish church. It dates from around 1903 and comes from Some Records of Eltham 1060-1903 which is a ma...
Stories of Salford Cinemas …………. Part 2 …….. L to V
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This will be one of the easiest Salford stories, comes in two parts , and is nothing more than a list of all the Salford cinemas in 1928.*...
Sunday, 21 June 2026
Longford Hall and our own Chorlton radical
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H ere is the story of our own radical who lived on the site of what was Longford Hall at the beginning of the 19th century. This I have ...
Stories of Salford Cinemas …………. Part 1 …….. A to K
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This will be one of the easiest Salford stories, comes in two parts , and is nothing more than a list of all the Salford cinemas in 1928.* ...
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Cutting the grass in Mottingham …. in them olden days
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I like this picture for several reasons, not least because it is one I have never seen before. It comes from a delightful slim volume entitl...
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