Andrew Simpson

  This is one of my favourite pictures. It has appeared countless times before on the blog, and I never tire of writing about it. This is t...

In the spring of 1877, Mr Samuel Walton would have had a fine view from his house on Cross Road out on to the fields which stretched down B...

Now number 121 Beech Road vanished a long time ago. Hunts Croft, circa, 1960s It was one of our more elegant early 19th century prope...

Today I was reminded by my old Facebook chum Bill Summers of that house on Edge Lane called Alton Towers. Alton Towers, 1907 Like him I have...

Now one of the first golden rules of research is that you never turn down any information you are given. It might not fit with what you a...

Now for anyone who grew up or lived in a 2 up two down property, this brick structure will be familiar. Declan's brick structure, 2021 ...

This is Brook Lane in 1909 on the cusp of a change. 1909 For centuries it had led out of the village past the old Bowling Green Hotel, cross...

Now I have Lee Hutchings to thank for this image. He posted it today on a Chorlton Facebook site and it invites intriguing questions of just...

There is a singular lack of images of Chorlton during the middle decades of the last century. Look through the collections and you can find ...

I am looking at a picture of a group or workmen outside a house on South Meade and at first glance there doesn’t seem to be anything unusua...

I just missed the battle which if lost would have seen a swathe of properties from Crossland Road north across Beech Road and encompassing A...

Now I am back with a familiar picture which has appeared before on the blog. Mr. Taylor's cottage, date unknown The caption just says, “...

This picture of Oswald Road perfectly sums up what we had become by the early decades of the 20th century.   For most of the early...

Now, it has become popular to take a pretty ordinary house and trace its story back in time. The house, 1959 I have to confess it is somethi...