Andrew Simpson

Now I can’t be certain when this photograph of the Rivoli on Barlow Moor Road was taken but given that the cinema opened in November 1936 a...

Now I have been fascinated by Harold Clarke who was one of our local commercial photographers.* Barlow Moor Road, circa 1926 During...

It all began with this picture postcard and ended with a chance discovery. The picture is remarkable enough but not an uncommon one of...

I like the way that old postcards can reveal our past in many different ways. It’s every much as good as a detective story. You sta...

Now Wilbraham Road and Edge Lane were popular locations for commercial photographers not least because of the many posh properties which ...

Now I am not a great fan of those postcards which give you more than one scene. It is true of course that you get more for your mone...

This is a picture postcard of the old chapel which predated the parish church on the green, and was taken from an original print which appea...

Typical example of my grandfather's work, with distinctive "AHC" number Arthur Harold Clarke’s photographs and postca...

Now here is challenge with a difference.   The post card was sent in the August of 1930, and was produced by our old friend Harold Clar...