Andrew Simpson

Now, there will be someone who can offer up a full and detailed explanation for the practice of putting coins in or around the entrance to a...

  This will be the last foray into those pennies, half pennies, farthings and shillings which were part of my growing up.* Half Penny, 1951...

 This is one of those warnings which extends beyond the home to everywhere and involves an old coin, some brick dust and a hankey. The penny...

It isn’t much to look at and until recently I had totally ignored it amongst the coins our Stella collected over four decades ago. King Geor...

If you were born in the first half of the last century the chances are that you carried a little bit of our collective history around with y...