Andrew Simpson

Now if you have been on one of those history walks around town chances are that at some point the guide will enthusiastically point to a b...

There is much of the history of south Manchester which has sunk without trace. In the way these things work we have rather been eclips...

I have been re-reading Sketches of Fallowfield by Mrs C. Williamson which she published in 1888. It began as a series of lectures ab...

The connection between radical politics and handloom weavers is well known, and so as you do I went looking for our handloom weavers. L...

Now my old botanist friend, Dave Bishop and I have often speculated on there being handloom weavers in Didsbury and looking at the 1841 ...