Andrew Simpson

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Sunday, 9 August 2026

Snaps of Chorlton No 11, a badge and a festival in 1984 not bad for one post

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An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. Cheating really, not so much a snap more a picture of the...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 2 Pool Fold

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Back Pool Fold is one of those twisty little thoroughfares which you think must have a rich and varied history and at sometime have offered...
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Walking down Sidcup High Street in the August of 1961

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Now it would be a full three years after this picture postcard of Sidcup High Street was sent before we settled in Eltham and a lot longe...
Saturday, 8 August 2026

Travelling on the railway in 1830

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I wish I could  have rattled along on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway sometime in the 1830s. But I can't so instead I will offe...

So no more the second hand shops of Chorlton ......

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If you can remember a time before the Chorlton bar culture, you will be able to name at least one of our second hand shops. Back in the...
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The city over the river ………….

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Now yesterday I posted a story of Greenwich Park and the view from the hill across the River. And it prompted Douglas White to post one of h...
Friday, 7 August 2026

"down an inviting green lane [that] leads to Eltham, a pleasant walk of hardly two miles" in the company of Bradshaw's guide of 1862

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Now I never tire of guide books and so here we are with Bradshaw’s Illustrated Handbook to London and its Environs which was published in 1...
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