Andrew Simpson

A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a few paragraphs and  a challenge for people to suggest some tha...

I suppose that old W.C. Fields line, “Never work with children or animals” could be adapted to include never write stories about tr...

Now it seems bizarre that one local authority in dispute with another should take the drastic step of digging up a line of newly laid tram ...

We are on Barlow Moor Road sometime in the 1930s on what looks to be a sunny morning. Of course there is no way of knowing whether it i...

Now there is nothing more ordinary than the ticket machine and a waste bin. But they are just two essentials for travelling by tram. Enough ...

Now these are two of my favourite pictures of a tram. It is partly because of the detail, partly because it is still possible to trace ...

I like this picture, which I am guessing is the morning rush hour, sometime in the 1930s. Now I know it can’t be any later than 1938 be...

It stood on the corner of Barlow Moor Road and Malton Avenue and had been there from 1914. Our tram and bus office, circa 1920s-30s It start...

Now I tried standing in the road at this exact spot yesterday and failed dismally.   It is that stretch of Wilbraham Road just past ...

So, who would have thought that the waiting room of the Corporation tram office would end up as the home of the Manchester Diving Group? The...

Sometimes you set out to tell a little story and without really making much of an effort a collection of them fall together.  And so it ha...

Now this is the last of the pictures from that excellent site run by Mark Fynn.* And as a bonus here are two.  I was going to say in t...

It is a familiar enough place, which before it was the bus terminus was destination of trams and known as Chorlton Office. And as such dates...

It’s a tram picture again but with a bit of a difference, because it is the background which interests me more. We are on Barlow Moor R...

The one I wrote in 2013. I couldn’t resist another journey on the new tram from Chorlton to Didsbury Village. Until last week no pas...

It’s a personal opinion but I don’t think our tram terminus has fared so well. The lavatories are permanently closed the office buildi...

I have over the last few days been reflecting on the changing views of one small part of Wilbraham Road.  It started with a photograph f...

Now for no other reason than I can, here are trams 3067 and 3068 on route to and from the Airport. It was a Friday afternoon and I was ...

You won’t see one of these on the roads of Chorlton, and yes once they would have been a fairly common sight. It is a water car and...

I never tire of this image of Barlow Moor Road sometime just before 1911 and it is one I keep coming back to. But for now it is the ...