Andrew Simpson

Reflecting on the New Poor Law and how it impacted on one small rural community 4 miles from Manchester The Workhouse, Hulme, 1844 Th...

It is the sort of discovery which would gladden the heart of anyone engaged in family history. The Griffth farmhouse, New Brunswick, 2008 ...

“they were robbed of their childhood and of the opportunity of a sound education .... the emigration of young children for working purpos...

We are in New gates which was a closed court off Corporation Street close to the junction with Withy Grove and the year is 1908. Th...

I doubt I would ever have come across Miss Olga Hertz, had it not been for a report she wrote in 1909 which surfaced recently. The repo...

This month’s history talk at Chorlton Good Neighbours given by Andrew Simpson explored the subject of British Home Children; a scheme which ...

  Between 1870 and 1930 100, 000 children were sent to Canada, and placed on farms and in domestic service ….. the youngest were aged just 4...

Now until recently I had no idea that there was an organisation called the Cinderella Club or of its links to the wider socialist movemen...

Now you know just by looking at the photograph that there is a story here. And the more you look it is apparent that there will be as m...

14 Major Street, 1905 Now as ever there is a story behind this picture. We are on Major Street in 1905 and the building is the Boys’ ...

The story of the children sent to Canada from the late 19th century into the early 20th has almost passed out of living memory, but thos...

Some of us will in the course of family research come across the relative who was living on the streets, which will be as shocking as that ...