Andrew Simpson

Today I was reminded by my old Facebook chum Bill Summers of that house on Edge Lane called Alton Towers. Alton Towers, 1907 Like him I have...

I doubt I would ever have got to know about Mr Hugget Billing and Miss Vivien Horsfall Attwood if it weren’t for Sally’s wedding photogra...

Now if I wanted to walk to Stretford from the village in the late spring of 1847 I would have used the old road . It started at Hardy L...

I can see why Cissie decided to send this postcard to her young brother in the August of 1905. He was staying at the delightfully n...

This is about as close as we are going to get to Hampton House. The garden wall of Hampton House, 1959 It stood just a little back fr...

I am the first to admit that it is lazy history to claim that one house  can reflect the story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy from the mid 19th cent...

Now it is another one of those stories I thought had come to an end, but the Twilight Sleep Home at Westonby on Edge Lane has popped up aga...

I never knew that maze of streets, squares and courts which existed between Market and Cannon Street and which were bounded by High Street ...

Waltham House, 1959 This is Waltham House in the spring of 1959 and it was coming up for its 96th birthday but like many of those grand...

Looking towards Chorlton, with Heywood's house on our left, 1914 There will be someone I know who has the answer to the mystery of...

Now I know this will upset the residents of Stretford and no doubt bits of Chorlton too but it happened and here is the story. Strollin...

  To be honest it was less a pavement theft and more a road widening scheme. And for the story and the pictures I have my old Facebook chum ...

Here is another of our Red Cross nurses who served here in Chorlton in the Great War. Miss Bidgood's shift She was Miss Ada Bidgoo...

Now here is a picture of Edge Lane I haven’t seen before. It dates from around 1900 and was found by my friend Sally “in an old book, t...

In the course of the last few days I have got to know a lot about Mr. Bryce Smith, who lived at Rye Bank in Chorlton, described himself as ...