Andrew Simpson

I like aerial photographs of Chorlton and this one has the lot. Looking down on my bit of Chorlton, circa 1930s-40s My friend Bill se...

We are on Beech Road in the summer of 1932.   Judging by the shadows and the activity it must be sometime in the morning. The...

Now back in the summer of 1937 I could have had three cinemas to choose from here in Chorlton and of these the most impressive was the Sav...

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...

The Chorlton Liberal Club had opened in the October of 1897 . It wasn’t the first club the Liberals had had here, that was on Wilbraha...

Now I can’t be certain when this photograph of the Rivoli on Barlow Moor Road was taken but given that the cinema opened in November 1936 a...

 It is often the seemingly trivial things people leave behind, which offer up fascinating insights into how we lived. And so, it is with a c...

Now here is a bit of history that I bet lots of people know but has passed me by and it concerns St Margaret’s playing fields in Whalley Ra...

Now I like the way that people continue to be generous with both their family pictures and the memories. So I was very pleased when thi...

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...

I won’t be the only one in Chorlton who is fascinated by the lost roads of Chorlton. Some just changed their name, but others have vanished ...

An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. Beech Road, 1935 Today we are on Beech Road during ...

Looking "June" the Hairdressers on Wilbraham Road I never underestimate the power of a collection of old local adverts to off...

Now I have been fascinated by Harold Clarke who was one of our local commercial photographers.* Barlow Moor Road, circa 1926 During...

I bet there will be someone who remembers Riding’s Stores Ltd. They sold cycles and advertised themselves as “The largest Quality Cycle Spec...

More than anything it’s the detail that draws you in to this photograph of Annie  and Nelly  outside 67 Hawthorn Road in the spring of 1930...

After 89 years I doubt I will turn up much on The Chorlton-cum-Hardy Amateur Gardeners’. The invitation to New Year fun, 1936 But then until...

The blog doesn’t usually do then and now pictures. Beech Road, 1935 But this one which was taken by the sister of Marjorie Holmes is a favou...