Andrew Simpson

Now I grant you they may not seem the most compelling things to write about or indeed to asdmire. But if you are of a certain age and l...

I am looking at another one of John Casey’s photographs. It dates from the very early 1990s when the construction of the First City Cro...

Now this is the Corn Exchange sometime in the 1980s. It was a building I took for granted at the time and never for one minute though...

Now this is one of those scenes which hasn't changed much in thirty years but I wonder for how much longer the buildings directly in fr...

Now I am back by Hunts Bank looking up to the Cathedral and there is that missing building again. It featured a few days ago when Andy ...

Now I will have passed that entrance between the shop Shudehill Supply and its neighbour countless times and never ventured down to explore...

Now you wont find Bradshaw Street although if you are brave enough to stand in the bus lane beside the Metro stop at the Shudehill Intercha...

Now I don’t remember number 73 Withy Grove and a full 40 years after John took this picture I doubt many will. It comes from his 1980s ...

Now if you are old enough to remember when the Printworks produced newspapers then this stretch of Withy Grove will be familiar. And of...

Now I maintain and I maintain most strongly that some of the most fascinating images of the twin cities come from the last four decades. ...

Now nothing dates more than pictures of the recent past. So here is the first of three from John Casey taken in the 1980s. Location; ...

Now nothing dates more than pictures of the recent past. So here is the first of three from John Casey taken in the 1980s. Location...

Now in the 1980s Manchester cafe society pretty much still just stretched to a couple of tables and chairs plonked down on the street outsi...

This is another of those images from John Casey. Location; Salford Picture; Chapel Street, circa 1980, from the collection of John...

Now this is a story for which all the credit goes elsewhere. The picture is another from the camera of John Casey and the descriptio...

This was the very first picture John Casey shared with me. John took the photograph in the early 1980s and posted it beside a story I r...

Now I am indebted to John Casey for sharing some of his wonderful photographs of Salford and Manchester. They were taken in the early...

Now John’s pictures have been a regular feature of the blog so when he sent over a story to accompany some of the Salford Bridge it was too...

Now here is a place I have fond memories of and I rather think I may well have been in there around the time John Casey took these picture ...

Now I never visited the Swan With Two Necks on Withy Grove and now I never will. Swan With Two Necks, 1980s According to one source ...