Andrew Simpson

We are on Beech Road in the summer of 1932.   Judging by the shadows and the activity it must be sometime in the morning. The...

Sometimes a picture captures a moment which with hindsight allows you to see that things were just about to change .  Here is another ...

The caption on the picture just says “James Unsworth’s butcher shop on the corner of the Green Albermarle Road.  This shop later beca...

I won’t be the only one who has memories of buying sweets at the shop which was on  the corner of Beech Road and Claude Road, and there ...

I wonder how many people remember visiting Whitegg’s the grocer’s shop after its makeover in 1961. Now I am fairly confident that there...

Andy’s essential walk took him across Stockport this week and as ever it was the bits of buildings others ignore that he found interesting....

I can’t remember when the shops on this stretch of St Clements Road were converted into purely residential use. Back in the 1970s when ...

Now I have been meaning to write about those two corner shops on Crossland Road because they were still doing the business when I washed ...

Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years. I don’t claim t...

One of the things I like about collections of street photographs is how you can sometimes follow the photographer down the road.  In th...

Here for no other reason than I have the images are a selection of pictures of Beech Road during the last thirty years. I don’t claim t...

Slightam's, circa 1966 Now I have become interested in Slightam’s of 105 Manchester Road. They ran one of the shops which offered...

Once the corner shop was a familiar and important feature of most of our towns and cities acting as much as lifeline to the late shopper ...

Once the corner shop was a familiar and important feature of most of our towns and cities acting as much as lifeline to the late shoppe...

Now I am no nearer discovering the story behind nu 61 Manchester Road which many will remember as Whitelegg’s the grocery shop. I have ...

Now I always planned to revisit that corner shop on Kingshill Road partly because it has history and also because it is back doing what all...

Now I am back on Oswald Road thinking of the house Mr and Mrs Lawton occupied in the January of 1911. 127 Oswald Road, 2012 It was a ...

I went looking for Mr James Lawton today but sadly so far I have only found the one reference to him at 127 Oswald Road in 1911. Today ...

This shop was built in about 1912 and since then has mostly been an off-license.  It ceased trading around the time of the turn of the...

I can’t remember if this shop was still doing the business when I washed up in Chorlton in the mid 1970s. And before I go any further, ...