Andrew Simpson

There are always stories, and some are more unexpected than others. Well Hall Road and the hutments circa 1920 This one concerns a wi...

An occasional series on the stories behind the book on Manchester and the Great War* Places Nellie would have visited, the parish c...

Mr and Mrs Davison and their son, 1916 Ireland Now I went looking for anything that might have happened on October 27 1915 but the data...

Now the romantic in me would like to think that George Davison bought one of these as a souvenir for his wife Nellie and their son Duncan....

The Great War is now over a century ago. Royal Artilery Barracks, Woolwich During the four years of war  Eltham like the rest of the ...

Mr and Mrs Davison and their son, date unknown I am rereading the letters of George Davison.* It has been a moving experience and one...

Now I no longer think it odd that one of the most vivid descriptions of the Royal Artillery’s Barracks at Woolwich should be from letters s...

Now I grew up in one of those houses built for Arsenal workers during the Great War, and have read about the munition girls, the vast numbe...

Now here is what looks like a series of love stories featuring no 28 Edge Lane. But first to the house which for a great chunk of its exi...

This is one of those stories which bring together Manchester and Woolwich along with a soldier from the Great War and a new resource for an...

Officers of the B.V.T.C, 1914 Just when you think you are getting to the bottom of a mystery the search takes off in the most unexpecte...

Now I wonder what George Davison was doing in Burnley in the autumn of 1914. I know he was a clerk who had variously worked for a solic...

Last  Christmas our Saul was not  with us and he was missed. All of which makes me reflect on how much harder it must have been for tho...