Andrew Simpson

It has become one of those throw away comments much loved by the media that since 2016 we do seem to have had a lot of Prime Ministers, whic...

The year is 1978 and the Labour Party is defending its Moss Side seat in a byelection which was occasioned by the death of Frank Hatton who...

Now I know that local elections do not fascinate everyone, but the 1928 election here in Chorlton had got the lot.  It was fought out ag...

I t is of course an obvious observation that political fortunes wax and wane, and the mould breaking gains of one year become the pit of ele...

Rally for George Tomlinson on the day of the election on Bridgewater Street Here is another from the Bolton series which for various re...

You might be forgiven for passing over the picture of these policemen standing in Queens Park Bolton in the September of 1937. And yet ...

Outside the Flash Mill Street compound in 1937 I am back with that wonderful collection of images from Worktown. And today I have bee...

 I have voted in 14 General Elections and countless local ones along with some referendums. Keith Bradley and some of the election team. Jun...

Labour 1945 Now I have been thinking of election posters. And it is easy to stick with those issued by the Party of preference. But...

A photograph is not much without the story that goes behind it. This one was supplied to me by my old friend Andrew Simcock who of cou...

Now, I thought I had lost this photograph which was taken on the night Keith Bradley won Manchester Withington for the Labour Party. An...

Now the poster has faded with age. Once, forty five years ago it sat in our window, moved after the election to a wall in the bathroom ...

The Conservative Club circa 1910 I wonder just what an ardent Conservative or Liberal voter born in the late 19th century in Chorlton...

It is the sort of headline the media delights to run, and will follow up with acres of “in depth investigation”, penetrating discussion, and...

It was the first year into a Conservative Government and the 1980 election campaign in Chorlton was fought out on both local issues and n...