Andrew Simpson

Angel Street, 1901 Sometimes a phrase captures your imagination, and so it is with "Sellers of Sleep", which is a French, t...

Now yesterday I was on Angel Street exploring the stories behind the doors of the lodging houses, of which there were many in the surroundin...

Corny title perhaps but good news because after a break of many months the online catalogue of over 80,000 images of Manchester is back and ...

I won’t be alone I think in wondering why I haven’t been able to access Manchester Libraries digital collection of photographs. St Andrew...

Anyone who has grown up in a terraced street in the older parts of our towns and cities will recognise the wicket that has been chalked o...

Now tracking down the residents of some common lodging houses in the seedier part of Manchester in the late 19th century was never going ...

Angel Street in 1901 I am back on Angel Street between 1897 and 1901. Recently    I wandered down the street in the company of Samuel...

On Angel Street in 1900 We are on Angel Street in 1900. Now I can’t be exactly sure where along Angel Street we are  but I think it w...

Angel Street, March 2014 This will be the last story on Angel Street for a while. Today it is a pretty nondescript place of empty spa...