Andrew Simpson

Now there are not that many pictures of Hardy Farm and that is a shame. I included one of the most well known in the book on Chorlton ...

Now there is a caption competition here but I leave that to the swift of mind who can call up a witty aside on the turn of a sixpence. ...

  This is Hardy Farm at the end of Hardy Lane, and you will have to be of an age to remember it. Hardy Farm, 1965 It has gone now, but it ap...

I am back on the meadows thinking of warm summer's walks. All of which is a far cry from those winters we used to have when freezin...

One of the great delights of living in Chorlton has to be the Meadows or to give them their own name …… Chorlton Eees. The Meadows , 2018 Th...

It’s not the best outcome for a watercourse which once ran free across across the meadows but it is an all too familiar one. If I have ...

Chorlton Brook can seem a pleasant and benign bit of water. Come across it on a warm summer’s day as it flows under the Brookburn Bridg...

The Brook in 1996 I am back by Chorlton Brook with two of Andy Robertson’s pictures. Now I have always had a fascination for the Broo...

Skating on the meadows in 1914 Now the skating story on the meadows just won’t go away. I was once rather dismissive of the popularly...

It is a long time since I last referred to my old friend David Bishop’s excellent blog about Chorlton Meadows. http://friendsofchorlto...