Andrew Simpson

This is the White Hart on a summer’s day in 1909, and it was going to be the subject of the story. Mrs Ann Nunn who ran the five roomed...

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...

A short series on the pictures of Eltham and Woolwich in 1976. For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the...

“A characteristic feature of the King’s Arms is the quant fire place which still exists in the parlour, as well as the ancient clock, the...

Rural communities have never been the peaceful idyllic places some would have us believe. In just a short two decades, the small township...

Now some stories just have a habit of not wanting to go away. They stay hanging around challenging you to go off and discover something...

Now one of the best things about history is when you get to touch it. And for me it doesn’t that matter much whether it’s a Roman coin or a...

Now I know there will be plenty of pictures of the library knocking around and I dare say some better quality versions of this one which dat...

Sometimes it is just sufficient to let the image do the business. We are on the High Street and the caption just says “The Greyhound an...

The old Rising Sun Inn circa 1890 Now I am drawn to this picture of the old Rising Sun. I have fond memories of spending evenings in ...

The Rising Sun circa 1890 The old Rising Sun stood on the site of the present library. It dated back something like two hundred years...

An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping. I always remember this as the Greyhound and it...

The old Greyhound and other buildings, 1909 Pubs and inns have always been more than just places to drink and relax, like the posh cof...

Now I have been a wee bit harsh about Passey Place in the past. You turn off into it from the High Street and once you have passed the ...

Now I have been a wee bit harsh about Passey Place in the past. You turn off into it from the High Street and once you have passed the ...

True I was living in Manchester at the time and it was June 2006, but even so this place was part of my childhood, along with many others f...

Now today I am being rather lazy and have not dug deep in to our history to find out about the White Hart. This I shall do, trawling th...

I am back on Eltham Hill at the Kings Arms, sometime at the beginning of the last century. Now I have written about the pub and one of ...

Now I am fairly confident in saying I never went in the Man of Kent on the High Street and of course I now never will. If I am hones...