Andrew Simpson

Now I featured the story before of when flooding stopped the trains at Chorlton Railway Station. But Andy Robertson just passed over ...

It might seem a last exhausted stab at stories about Chorlton and flooding but this one is interesting and set me off on one of those li...

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...

"It was,"  wrote Thomas Ellwood the local historian “no uncommon thing to see the great level of green fields completely covere...

The road twists and turns following the old field divisions and natural obstacles before running up beside the river bank . Junction of...

Today I am on the Mersey at the edge of the township.  It is 1910 and judging by the trees we are somewhere in the summer or early autum...

Now, on this I will need help. I am looking at two pictures of the Mersey sent to me by Dave Kennedy, yesterday evening, who added, “Hi Andr...

Now I have a problem with this picture . It was painted by the local artist J.Montgomery. I say local because almost his entire coll...

I posted this very tranquil scene of the Mersey at Red Bank Farm a few days ago and you would be forgiven for thinking that the river was...

We had been following the old road and been talking about the massive earthworks which protected us from the Mersey. In a further effort t...