Andrew Simpson

 Unless you were in the know I doubt you would ever have realized that behind the shops on Barlow Moor Road between the former Co-op and Cor...

Now I am back at 523 Barlow Moor Road where my friend Ann Love lived during the 1950s and 60s. It is still there today but has undergon...

I am looking at a card sent to the Chorlton branch of the Manchester and Salford Co-op shop on Beech Road in the summer of 1953. Over...

This will be the last of the descriptions of the Hall from Oliver Bailey whose family rented and then owned Hough End and the surrounding l...

I doubt that any one born before 1980 would ever think that the stretch of Wilbraham Road from Albany down to Manchester Road would be po...

Now the thing about very old buildings is that usually we focus on that very old bit. So it is with Hough End Hall built in 1596 and fo...

We are on the meadows, when people still worked and lived there. Now everyone knows about the sewage works which were first established...

Now this is one of those buildings with a history and almost everyone you talk to will remember it as everything from a doctor’s to a caf...

Now here is an image of Chorlton which will nudge some memories. We are on that twisty path which leads off from Brookburn Road, follow...

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 here is one of those fascinating little bits of history which like so many is the result of nothing more dramatic than turning out a cu...

I am looking at an advert for Park Wireless a company which sold electrical goods across south Manchester including Chorlton.*   The ye...

It was one of those perfect summer days out beyond Hardy Farm. The sun was hot and the sky a brilliant blue with just a few light clo...

Now here are two images of Chorlton which at first glance look familiar.   We are on the allotments with the Park to our rear looking...

Now it is Sunday April 7th 1957 and I am on Chorlton railway station waiting for the train from Central which left at 9.45 am and is due...

Now, I don’t remember the bowling green on the Rec, by Beech Road, but lots of people over the years have talked about it. I have alway...

I have Jon and Hazel to thank for reigniting my interest in our local artist Derrick Lea who I first came across a decade and a bit ago. Sev...

Now it is very easy to slip into some nostalgic view of our recent past. We have all seen the adverts with the great old cooking rang...

523 Barlow Moor Road If like me you were born in the first half of the last century you will remember the old cooking ranges, the small...