Andrew Simpson

Location; Stenner Lane, Didsbury Picture; Didsbury door, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

Location; Wilmslow Road, Didsbury Picture; the former church, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson  

It’s the one on Albert Hill Street, and was the Primitive Methodist Church. In 1911 it proudly announced that its “Services were at ...

I have never visited St. Aidan’s Presbyterian Church on Palatine Road and now I doubt I ever will. It closes for good in late June after a ...

 Where else would you go on a grey day which promised little? That said a heap of runners were making their way back from a jaunt along the ...

Following on from the recent blog on William Roberts, a brewer from Hulme, I had the honour of being asked to write the follow up blog base...

Now I like Barbarella’s picture of the entrance to Ivy Cottage, on Barlow Moor Road. The entrance, 2020 And as you do I went looking...

Now it’s a simple lesson, but one I don’t always follow through, which is …… never stay on the main roads, always wander off and you will b...

Now the last book on the history of Didsbury came out in 2013, and so it is time for a new one. But this one will be different, because...