Andrew Simpson

Now I have been waiting for The Dawn of Didsbury Jewry 1861-1926 to arrive in the bookshop. I was alerted to Julia Maine’s contribution to t...

I say the new tram, because quite clearly this wasn’t the old fashioned tall stately tram which rattled its way around the city at the st...

Now, I remain fascinated at the route which took me from a framed page of a sales catalogue on a wall in a house in Didsbury via a shop in ...

Now, I may be wrong, but I don’t think there is a history of Didsbury’s own brass band. The Didsbury Brass Band, 1985-1986 Of course, like a...

If there were  ever any pictures of the people who lived in Warburton Street at the beginning of the last century they have all been lost, ...

Now, I know exactly where we are on Wilmlsow Road, and I know exactly when we were there. Walking the Coronation, 1911 And this is be...

I think this might be the last in the series of Didsbury in the 1960s. I say that but I am sure it’s a promise I won’t keep. This pic...

It’s been a while since I have been in the library and had quite forgotten the simplicity of the design. It was built in fulfilment of...

There is a growing interest in renaming the old township of Didsbury. Saxton's map of Lancashire, 1577 The smart money is on that older ...

Now I belong to a generation that was dragged round wool shops as a child. My mum, her friend and later my sisters all knitted and so t...

I have become a great fan of the artist Derrick Lea who during the 1950s and into the 60s drew and painted many of our iconic buildings acr...

Number One Malvern Grove is an unimposing house on the corner of Burton Road in West Didsbury. 1 Malvern Grove, house and garden 2022 And it...

It was one of those stories that you uncover by accident and will require lots more research but that won’t  stop me beginning the tale. ...

January 1793 was an uncertain time across the country.   Didsbury in 1853 The weather was unseemingly cold, the harvest had been poor...

It is easy to miss the stone with its initials M&S high up on the building which includes Expo Lounge, and  Holland &Barrett. T...

The Mersey up by the meadows and down past Jackson’s Boat can seem a benign and fairly gentle stretch of water. And this picture take...

 This is Withington Hospital in 1965. Withington Hospital from Cavendish Road, 1965 And it’s a lesson in how quickly we forget. The image wa...