Andrew Simpson

Now I am on a roll again with pictures from our most recent past. And so here is another of Andy Robertson’s taken I think in the early...

Now Muriel and Richard’s will always have be a special place for me. Their fruit and veg was always the best, and at Christmas Muriel always...

Now I make no apology at returning to Kingspot. If you are of a certain age and that pretty much covers everyone in Chorlton, you will ...

First the apology, which is simply I have lost the names of the authors of this shopping survey, but I hope they won’t mind me reproducin...

Now here's a vanished scene, well  almost. They must date from before 2000, when I swapped smelly photography for digital. And...

I continue to be a fan of “near history” which many traditionalists would rubbish as not history at all.    After all so the argume...

Now this little booklet I remember well, and it is a perfect example of how history books come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. It was...

  Now it is quite appropriate that during Chorlton Book Week I am reading a book from a local author which features Chorlton and Manchester ...

I can’t remember exactly when we bought it but it was one of the last to roll off the production line in Portugal and as the last were ma...

I can’t remember exactly when we bought it but it was one of the last to roll off the production line in Portugal and as the last were mad...

I can’t remember exactly when we bought it but it was one of the last to roll off the production line in Portugal and as the last were ma...

It is thirty years since this picture of that stretch of Barlow Moor Road was taken. And unlike those grainy black and white images tak...

I can’t be exactly sure of the date of the picture, but I know it must be sometime around the late 1990s. Now I can be pretty sure of t...

There is something in the idea that we tend to take the present for granted, which for me was that moment when I realized that the Barbakan ...

Now, the fun in looking at old pictures of Chorlton is just how many differences you can spot. And it doesn’t just extend to those very old ...

For years it was just one of those short cuts you took if you wanted to leave Beech Road and get on to Crossland Road.  I must have don...

This is how I remember the old Temperance Billiard Hall which opened in 1907 and was part of an influential movement.* 1990s The hall...

Sometime in the 1990s Now this is 38 High Lane and it will be a shop many will remember. For a long time it was a cycle shop and then...

It is easy to take our recent past for granted and that I think is a big mistake. All too often what was familiar becomes the stuff of hi...