Andrew Simpson

The story of Didsbury in just twenty objects, chosen at random and delivered in a paragraph or more. It was billed as “The People’s Far...

 This is the third in the series on the changes to Didsbury over the last two decades. Homes from the former chapel and library, 2022 Now th...

Looking back to 2014 ...... before that development. This is the Pump House.  It has served as an educational institution of sorts sinc...

The year of 1940 Now this is one of those little bits of history which could so easily have been lost forever. We are looking at a ph...

It  served as an educational institution of sorts since it became a boarding school around 1812.   Later it was turned into a theologic...

I arrived here just four years later, ready to do a post grad course and on to a career in teaching. Location; Didsbury Picture;Visio...

Now I couldn’t stay away from Didsbury and that dig down in the College car park because now we have pictures of the two houses that once s...

For nearly half a century the remains of the Laurels have been buried under a car park pretty much forgotten by everyone and I doubt would ...

Now I know that somewhere in a dusty set of filing cabinets or in some long forgotten book on the history of Manchester’s education service...

Another story from 2015. I doubt that there are that many people today who will remember the two houses buried under the car park in the ...

I didn’t expect to return to stories of Didsbury College, written back in 2015. The Drama Hall After all it was eight months ago when...

Now the thing about lodge houses even those that belong to posh mansions is that most people just ignore them. In the old days distingu...

Now it’s not often you get into a book, although I have to say mine was just a walk on part. But from 1972-73 I was at Didsbury College...

Now there will be some who mourned the end of Didsbury’s association with teacher training which began in the 1940s and its even longer lin...

Revisiting an old story, four years old, ..... because I can. I wonder if any of the staff and students have been back to Didsbury Col...

Well it has been a short time in coming, but one that was to be expected and here is the confirmation. My friend Pierre has sent over a...

Now I am back with those sweeping stairs at the Birley Building which earlier in the month became the home of the old Didsbury College of E...

Now the entrance to the new MMU Birley Building which houses the Faculty of Education my not have the history of its former home in Didsb...

Well that was what some of the staff, students, past students and friends did today at Didsbury. The college of education has been ther...