Andrew Simpson

Nora Templar was a well known historian .  She wrote a series of articles about the township which were published in the St Clements pa...

One of the things I like about local history is the way it draws people in.  People who have no historical training, possibly finished...

I wish I met Cliff Hayes, unlike all of the historians I have posted he was around Chorlton during all the time I have lived here.  Tru...

Marjorie with her mother, circa 1929 on the lockups by Chorlton Green Over the years Marjorie had become a close friend, and because s...

There have been many who have written about the history of Chorlton. Almost all of them draw on twenty-five articles written in the wi...

Written in 1990 Anyone interested in the history of Chorlton owes John Lloyd a lot.  He wrote the first ever general history book on th...

This week I was thinking of my old friend Tony Walker. He had long been recording the history of Chorlton and had a wonderful collect...

Looking towards Chorlton from Alexandra Road, 1920   It is hard to think that just within living memory there will be people who remem...

This is one of three photographs that I doubt very few people have seen. It is the Horse and Jockey in 1933 and appears in a Short H...

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...

This is one of my favourite pictures of the old parish church. It was taken by F. Blyth and appeared in A Short History of Chorlton-c...

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...

Now Chorlton has had quite a few history books along with historians, starting with the Rev Booker in the 1850s, our own Thomas Ellwood, th...

From seven years ago  and still good. There are many ways of telling stories of the past. One that has intrigued me was Mrs Broady’s...

Now Chorlton has more than its fair share of historians which stretch back to the Rev John Booker writing in the 1850s to John Lloyd in th...

This is the last of the three photographs from A Short History of Chorlton, written in 1933 by J.D.Blyth. The picture was taken by F Bl...

Historians and historical research are alive and doing very well here in Chorlton. Over the last few months I have mentioned some of those...

The thing about family history is where it leads. You start by wanting to trace a family member, and soon you begin to uncover how their l...