Andrew Simpson

Now, I am reunited with a building that has fascinated me for over 52 years. The house in 2016 It is the one that stands on Chorlton Street ...

I collect canals, and today it is the Cromford Canal. The canal, 2024 It was opened in 1794 and just two centuries later “was acquired by D...

It is just one of those things that the more adventures you have, the more chance that some will turn out to be grim and a disaster which i...

Now, I have been fascinated by canals ever since I came across a disused one close to where my grandparents lived in Chellaston. I would hav...

I collect gasometers.   They are a vanishing collector’s dream, and I have to confess I restrict myself to pictures and stories. Once every ...

Now Andy is nothing but dedicated, and yesterday he set off to Gorton in search of adventure. The lost canal, 2020 He had “got up ear...

We each take those “essential walks” in a different way, and in Andy’s case it had to be beside water, and that meant a stretch of one of ...

Yep ……… this is nothing more than a water story, occasioned by the recent heavy rain. July 2019 One of Andy Robertson’s favourite hau...

Now if you were born in the first half of the last century, you will have seen our canal network slowly decline, from a once proud and busy...

Now canals have always had a special fascination for me and I reckon the talk at Furness Vale History society on the Peak Forest Canal Syst...