Andrew Simpson

Continuing the story of Chorlton in just a paragraph. They are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at random. In j...

Hardy is that bit of Chorlton-cum-Hardy that most people are vague about.   It stretches east from the village and follows the river up...

I have always been fascinated by the Bowling Green Farm which stood on what is now the junction of Beech Road and Beaumont Road. The Bo...

A short series featuring objects which tell a story of Chorlton in just a paragrah and a challenge for people to suggest some that are pe...

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

I wish there was more to know about Lydia Brown, because back in the middle decades of the 19th century she was a busy woman, here in Chorl...

This remains one of my favourite pictures of the old church.  It was taken sometime before September 1904 but could have been at any ti...

Ours was a place  dominated by working animals. For centuries the main draught animal had been the oxen and in some parts of the coun...

The caption reads, “the footbridge over the stream at Brook Road entrance to the meadows.   From this bridge there was a diagonal pat...

Now, we have lost most of the features of our rural past, here in Chorlton. The Old Road, 2016 But just occasionally there are still ...

Now I don’t have a picture of James Bancroft, but given that he was born in 1802 and spent his life at the plough I doubt he would have had...

We have very few working pictures of when we were still a rural community. And so it is always exciting when one turns up and I get ...

Now , it is always fascinating to take a spot you know well, and try and think it back to a time before now. Looking out towards Chorlt...

We are looking out on John Holland’s Wood which stretched west along Chorlton Brook towards the Bowling Green Inn. John Holland's Wood, ...

Now I am looking at two pictures of Park Brow Farm which was doing the business of growing food from before the start of the 19th century....

Now I am the first to admit that you would be hard put to fit this wooden door into the history of a farm in Chorlton. Outside the stab...

It is easy to forget that just two generations ago we still had a number of independent dairies here in Chorlton and stories of being sent ...

Here is a little bit of our history which often gets over looked. In 1916 Park Brow Farm was awarded a certificate of Merit at the Manch...

Cows on the meadows, 2003 An occasional series reflecting on what we did in the township when we were still a small rural community. ...

Ploughing Row Acre, circa 1894 It’s a familiar enough picture and takes you back to that moment when Chorlton had almost lost its rur...