Andrew Simpson

We owe a great debt to the historians of the late 19th century who captured the memories of the people who lived in south Manchester w...

Catherine Chisholm was the first woman (1) to obtain a medical degree from Manchester University which she received on Tuesday 28th July 190...

There is much of the history of south Manchester which has sunk without trace. In the way these things work we have rather been eclips...

I have been re-reading Sketches of Fallowfield by Mrs C. Williamson which she published in 1888. It began as a series of lectures ab...

I suppose most of us rather like to think of our pubs as cherished old things, which have survived the test of time, having seen off world ...

It is easy to forget that south Manchester was not always just a sprawling set of suburbs on the edge of the city centre. Once upon a ...

  Now Andy Robertson is economical with his words leaving his superb set of pictures to tell a story. April 10 2016 So here are anoth...

This is less a story and more an example of just where detective work can go. Red Cross Badge, date unknown It started with a Red ...

“If you go down to the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise” .......... which of course is just as it should be, but in the cas...

“There was no chance to say goodbye to my parents, the buses arrived and we were off to London Road Station and three months in the country...

“I always knew the Talbot Hotel on Mauldeth Road was about to go but never made it!  So the next best thing is the nearly empty space.” ...

Now I have been featuring the stories of the libraries of south Manchester.  Local artist Peter Topping has produced a series of contempora...

It is hard to grasp just how rural all of south Manchester once was. Leaving the city and clearing Hulme or Cornbrook a traveller in 184...