Andrew Simpson

Now, you can tell a lot by someone’s wall paper. And if that wall paper has remained intact for nearly sixty years, it can be a show...

I grew up with tea chests.   In south east London and I guess pretty much everywhere they were what passed for storage. Often used during ho...

So how do you celebrate 70 years of service to Chorlton selling and taking care of bikes, giving cycle advice and supporting charities? Well...

On a wet miserable Remembrance Day over 30 people came together to watch the unveiling of a blue plaque at Ken Fosters Cycle Shop.   Cll M...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that any place in possession of a past, must be in want of a  blue plaque.* At which point some read...

It is fitting that the next Chorlton blue plaque should soon be going up on the wall of what is our oldest cycle shop still doing the busine...

Now every so often the question reappears as to which is the oldest business in Chorlton. And the title falls to Ken Foster’s cycle shop ...

Now most of the time for most things …… it does turn out right in the end, which is pretty much what happened last night in Chorlton at the...

Now, I know nothing about motorbikes but I know a story when it trips you up, and today that is what I got. We were by Ken Foster’s Cyc...

As adventures go it was a sedate one, but none the less an adventure even though it didn’t really conform to one. Clayton Hall, 2018 ...

Now here is a Chorlton story I am pleased to include. We are fast coming up to the anniversary of that awful attack at the Manchester A...