Andrew Simpson

Now anyone old enough to remember municipal bandstands in their hey day will have watched their slow decline. It was a combination of t...

Now I know there is much more to discover about Samuel Edgar Walker who is recorded on the family’s gravestone in Brooklands Cemetery. ...

Now I don't know the story of the bandstand in Parr Fold Park. but I am pretty sure someone will. And so having been sent these p...

Now the blog hasn’t featured a ghost sign for a while so when Antony sent me this one yesterday I fell on it. It is, Anthony tells me o...

Now when you start on a search for the story of one person’s life you are never quite sure where it will take you. I knew from the insc...

There is a real sense of satisfaction at finding out something about a young man who would otherwise just be a name in a cemetery. And ...

In 2016 Now the Islington Mill has fared better than most. It is according to one source , “the name commonly used to refer to the co...

I pretty much took the textile mill for granted. When I first came up to Manchester in 1969 they were still a big part of the landscape...