Andrew Simpson

The weir in 1915 I really don’t do enough pictures on the blog and rarely do those then and now sort of stories .  So here with the he...

I would have liked to have listened into the discussions between the seventeen Chorlton households who sometime in the summer or autumn ...

Now I featured the story before of when flooding stopped the trains at Chorlton Railway Station. But Andy Robertson just passed over ...

It might seem a last exhausted stab at stories about Chorlton and flooding but this one is interesting and set me off on one of those li...

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. ...

The Mersey up by the meadows and down past Jackson’s Boat can seem a benign and fairly gentle stretch of water. And this picture take...

It’s often the way it works. You start off with a picture and in beginning to uncover its secrets discover a whole lot more. So the...

The April and May of 1886 were anxious times for any in the township with children for we were in the grip of a measles epidemic . Thi...

Now anyone who walks the Meadows will have wondered at some stage about the tall embankments that run the length of the Mersey. The Mer...

Every winter we get the Edge Lane Lake which depending on the amount of rain that has fallen can either be a puddle or some quite extra...

It is one of the things which I like about doing the blog, and that is how a post elicits a response from someone who has more to tell a...

"It was,"  wrote Thomas Ellwood the local historian “no uncommon thing to see the great level of green fields completely covere...

The lost rivers of Manchester have an abiding fascination for me not least because there are so many of them and also so little evidence...

By Withington Road Railway Bridge, 2009 Today I think we shall walk the Fallowfield Loop again Now I first came across this disused ...

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 ...

Now, I guess most people know that Sale Water Park was created in 1979, runs through Mersey Valley between Sale and Stretford and has that ...

I first walked the Kickety Brook with my old botanist friend, David Bishop. It doesn’t look much but it was vital in its day for prot...

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...