Andrew Simpson

We are sometime in the summer of 1910 and judging by the collection of young people I think it must be dinner time. A few are young e...

These are pictures of our Lych Gate on the green. 1979 They were taken in the winter of 1979, although I am well prepared to accept a date i...

What I like about this picture of Beech Road in May 1935 is that it wasn’t taken by a professional but by someone I know.  Marjorie Ho...

It is one of those curious things that it is often the most recent history that goes unrecorded. I must have walked down Ransfield Roa...

I know more about the farms here in the township during the first 60 years of the 19th century than I do about them in the second half of t...

Sometimes you fall across a picture by chance which fills in a gap in your knowledge and at the same time is a joy to look at in its ow...

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...

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

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 ...

No matter how many times I look at this picture it always has the power to draw me back in. The date is uncertain but my old friend To...

Now I think it is time for a walk across the meadows in search of Mosley Bridge . It was a small bridge over the Brook put up by Charl...

The date on this postcard of Claude Road is 1915 but the scene must be earlier. On the surface it seems an unremarkable image. I...

Now I always think that some of the most fascinating pictures of Chorlton are not those of a hundred years ago but the more recent. Often...

The Palais de Luxe, circa 1928 It started with a picture and became a story. The picture was of the Palais de Luxe Cinema on Barlow...

Now I have a soft spot for Beech Road, it is after all where I have lived since 1976.  And for years I wondered why the pavement wid...

An occasional series featuring private and personal photographs of Chorlton. We are in the parish graveyard in 1976.  I have to say...

It looks like a fairly ordinary Chorlton garden and if pushed you might suggest a location bordering the meadows which pretty much means...

There is something very powerful about this photograph.  I know none of the people who are staring back at me and I can only hazard a ...

When I was asked recently to suggest one of my favourite ways of finding out about the past I chose a post card.  True, census informat...

I am fast becoming a living dinosaur, and I suppose I have to ask how could it be any different? I was after all born in the first hal...