Andrew Simpson

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...

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...

It is a scene of Beech Road which will be familiar to many and was not that long ago. I can’t now remember the exact date I took the pi...

Now, we do still have independent food shops, but there aren’t many of them. So here from sometime in the early 1980s, is the wet fish ...

It is just one of those things that most of us take bus stops for granted. Chorlton, 2022 Until that is for reasons never explained by the a...

You don’t see many cars wrapped up and tucked in for bed these days. When I was growing up in the 1950s,plenty of the car owners where we l...

Tuesday July 28th Location; Chorlton Pictures; Walking through Chorlton, 2020, f...

Here for those of a discerning but gullible frame of mind are the Chorlton stories which you will not find anywhere else. Mr. Topping h...

The community writing project which led to the book ....The Stories of Our Lives has been a great success, and to celebrate that success th...

The community writing project which led to the book ....The Stories of Our Lives has been a great success, and to celebrate that success th...

Now I am looking forward to getting my copy of The Stories of Our Lives, which is out today. It  “is the culmination of a community pro...

Now the title could quite easily have been reversed to “making history out of our stories”, and both are at the heart of a new projec t to...

Now the title could quite easily have been reversed to “making history out of our stories”, and both are at the heart of a new project to r...

Young Clara, date unknown Now the title could quite easily have been reversed to “making history out of our stories”, and both are at t...

And in the meantime, one all about it's past. Location; Chorlton Picture; from the collection of Andy Robertson,2014 * Redisc...

N ow I don’t suppose I would ever have been drawn into the story of no 200 Upper Chorlton Road if Mr Armistead had not asked me to research...

May 1966 I will soon have reached that age when I can go to the post office and collect my State pension which of course is that bitt...