Andrew Simpson

Cliefden House in 1909 Now I am back at Cliefden House. This grand 18th century property is still there on the High Street opposite P...

Now there are many ways of recreating a walk up the High Street on a day log ago. One of the easiest is to use photographs from the pas...

I am back on the High Street sometime in the 1930s, and this is Joan Wilcox behind the counter of the newsagents run by her parents. ...

The smithy close to the present library, 1909 I like the way that Eltham is revealing more of its past. Now I say Eltham as if it was...

I am the first to say that history is messy and just when you think you have got a story from the past just right, the past throws you a wo...

Now, it is so easy to get lost in an old picture of Eltham. Eltham Village, date unknown This is one that my friend Tricia found and ...

Walking down the south side of the High Street in 1909 So this is a walk down the southern side of the High Street in 1908 or 1909. N...

We will never know whether Lizzie’s aunt appreciated this picture postcard of our Fire Station. But as she had been receiving regular s...

Now, I have to say that this row of terraced houses is not what you expect to see off the High Street. And I had to think for a few min...

Now I can’t be sure when this picture was taken. The postmark records that it was sent at 11 am on September 20th 1907, but picture pos...

Now I have fond memories of the old Burton’s at the top of Well Hall Road. It was here that I bought my first suit, more than a few shi...

The aerial photograph has got to be one of those powerful ways of capturing a scene. So here we are flying over Eltham sometime in the ...

Eagle House, 1909 Eltham has got to be lucky that so many of its fine houses built in the 18th and early 19th centuries have survived. ...

Now I like this picture of the parish church.   It dates from around 1903 and comes from Some Records of Eltham 1060-1903 which is a ma...

One Acre Allotments, 1908 Even in the most built up urban areas there are clues to our rural past. Here in Chorlton there is still th...

Now there is a very obvious appeal about old photographs of Eltham. Eltham High Street in 1977 The people stare back at you and it is...

Now this is one of those familiar pictures of the High Street, looking east towards the church and Court Yard some time in 1915. It com...

This is William Relph who ran the Rising Sun on the High Street from sometime in the 1880s till his death in 1909. Now you can never be...

Now, for all of us who left Eltham, and pretty much never really went back finding pictures of the place in the year we left can be bitter s...

Even on a Sunday in late October our High Street can be a busy place. And looking out from the parish church I am reminded of the count...