Andrew Simpson

Rally for George Tomlinson on the day of the election on Bridgewater Street Here is another from the Bolton series which for various re...

I have been rediscovering the photographs of Humphrey Spender. During 1937-38 he recorded the lives of working people in Bolton as par...

It is odd to think that in some ways the world I grew up in is far closer to that of my parents than the one I have shared with my chi...

You might be forgiven for passing over the picture of these policemen standing in Queens Park Bolton in the September of 1937. And yet ...

Before the NHS, The Working Man's Hair Specialist, Bolton, 1937 Now the National Health Service has always been  controversial.   ...

Outside the Flash Mill Street compound in 1937 I am back with that wonderful collection of images from Worktown. And today I have bee...

Bolton in 1938 Now every so often I am drawn back to a time before the National Health Service. More recently it was in a story about...

I first came across the photographs of Humphrey Spender about two decades ago when somebody gave me a collection of his pictures about B...

I hadn’t planned on going back to Bolton and the Worktown exhibition, but the images of working class life are so compelling that I am d...