Andrew Simpson

Well, if you ever plan to travel east, take my way, it's the highway that's the best and get your kicks on route 356. Route 356, 202...

Now the Tiger Kills, was one of the books I bought from Bryan the Book on Beech Road sometime in the 1980s. It was already almost 40 years o...

Now if I am honest they were just a bit further away and had long ago been abandoned. I shouldn’t have been over surprised.  After all ...

Whiteacre Road and the corner of Raynham Street Now if you have to start off your life together at the tender age of 23 and 21 respecti...

Now it is all a bit different when you don’t grow up in a place , so when we discovered Stamford Park one Sunday it was special. And gi...

  It will be sometime after 1978, and I was back in Ashton wandering the market and snapping away with my new camera. Now I know it was 1978...

Now something new was happening in the North at the end of the 18th century and it was attracting the interest of the rest of the country a...

Now, I have the postcard, a possible address for where it was sent and a family who may have received it but matching all three has not quit...

This is another of those cards for which I don’t have a date, but judging by the clothes and the vans we are sometime in the 1950s. So ...

I had forgotten how much I like Ashton and in particular the market. We had taken the tram up from Chorlton on a bright sunny day whi...

Now I made a terrible mistake some years ago and got rid of loads of old history books. I reasoned as many dated from the late 1960s fr...

It will have been sometime in the summer of 1979 that I came across this grave stone in the parish church in Ashton-Under-Lyne. The gra...

Victorian Ashton, 1974 I have fond memories of Ashton-Under-Lyne. It was where I lived for three years in a small terraced house off...

Now I don’t make any claims to the quality of the pictures. They were taken in the days of smelly photography and sat as negatives in t...

Out with the Pit and Nelson, date unknown I went looking for that Herbalist shop on Old Street recently, and followed it up with the De...

Now I don’t make any claims to the quality of the pictures. They were taken in the days of smelly photography and sat as negatives i...

Now I don’t make any claims to the quality of the pictures. They were taken in the days of smelly photography and sat as negatives in t...

I went looking for the Dark Tunnel in Daisy Nook last week, inspired by a picture postcard which showed the tunnel sometime around 1900. Th...