Andrew Simpson

  I am a great admirer of Mary Mills and her work which over the years has revealed the industrial archaeology of where I grew up. Entitled ...

Just when I spent my dinner times gazing out over the River talking about music, the chance of over time and pretty much everything is lost....

It will be a full 55 years ago but the memory of that walk through Greenwich Park on a Saturday in September 1971 has never left me. I...

Now I am always intrigued at those more recent photographs of where we live. So while pictures from the late 19th and early 20th centur...

  Now, even on an August morning with the promise of a hot day ahead, standing at the bus stop opposite the Woolwich Ferry at 5 in the morni...

Now anyone with an interest in Eltham’s history will have come across the pictures of Mr Llwyd Roberts . * They first appeared in the K...

It will be a full 55 years ago but the memory of that walk through Greenwich Park on a Saturday in September 1971 has never left me. I ...

Now anyone who has walked this bit of the River at Greenwich will remember the noise of the water lapping the stones and the smell. It ...

Now when our Jillian offered to share her portfolio of photographs with me and the blog I jumped at the offer. There are some stunning ...

To this day I wonder what happened to the gas mask and the replica18th century cap gun we found on our adventures. Andrew Simpson, 1959...

Now on a dismal Saturday afternoon in Eltham during the winter of 1913 I might well have decided to take myself off to the Picturedrome whe...

It will have been in 1979, and I guess it was sometime in the summer and on a whim, I took a trip on the River. Now if you were born and gre...

A short series with few words looking at the postcards we sent from Woolwich, Greenwich and Eltham. Now I don’t think this scene of the...

Now just 40 years ago I wandered down Ballast Quay, on the off chance I would bump into someone I knew from the days I worked at Glenvilles...

This is Trafalgar Road in the spring of 1968 . It was taken by John King, and I am grateful that he has given me permission to use it, becau...

Our Jillian often gets her best pictures first thing in the morning when the light is sharp, the air is fresh and there is a promise of...

 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...

Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...

For four decades the pictures I took of Eltham and Woolwich in the mid ‘70’s sat undisturbed in our cellar. But all good things eventually ...

As skies go it was pretty dramatic. Location; Greenwich Picture; the River, 2017, from the collection of Jillian Goldsmith