Andrew Simpson

Now I know that local elections do not fascinate everyone, but the 1928 election here in Chorlton had got the lot.  It was fought out ag...

There are no pictures of Sarah Sutton, nor to my knowledge has she left a diary, or anything which might tell me about her life. She was ...

I have been staring at this picture for some time. It was taken on October 7th 1911 at the opening of Chorltonville, and somewhere amo...

Madeline Alberta Linford was by any measure a remarkable woman. Madeline Alberta Linford, 1921 At just 22 in 1917 she was writing for the Ma...

Alice McIlwrick should be remembered. She was the first Labour candidate to contest a local election here in Chorlton in the November ...

I shouldn’t have been surprised that Alice McIlwrick was involved in the Manchester and Salford Peace Week of 1937. She was “socialist ...

National Union of Teachers Badge mid 1980s It’s that week again and I think it’s worth recalling that while the Suffragettes quite rig...

This is another story that has been spawned during a conversation with a friend, in this case a colleague at Oxfam who also volunteers at th...

Now yesterday I began the story of Madge Addy f  from Chorlton who served in the Spanish Civil War, went on to be an undercover operator in...

This is the story of Madge Addy who worked in Chorlton, was a nurse in the Spanish Civil War and was awarded an OBE for her wartime work as...

Over 50 gathered The sun shone and over 50 people gathered to watch the unveiling of a plaque to Madge Addy .* I have written about M...

Now after some hard work we will soon have a plaque on a wall here in Chorlton to honour Madge Addy . She was a remarkable woman who...

Madge Addy was a remarkable woman who not only went out to Spain during the Spanish Civil War but went onto serve as an agent in occupied ...