Andrew Simpson

Now, if you are at all interested in the social history of Manchester in the 19th century, sooner or later you will dive into the history o...

Now I may well have missed it, but I don’t think we have a memorial to those who perished in the great Cholera outbreak of 1832. The Ch...

Now it is odd how you can be drawn to someone from the past who less than a decade ago I wouldn’t have wasted any time on. Mr. Frank's p...

Now for a decade and more I have been hunting for Mr. William Frank who gave his name to two small streets off Great Marlborough Street in C...

Now on the turn of a conversation starts a major new project by Andy Robertson, who commented that “Ian says as Oxford Road Station is bein...

New Wakefield Street is the long twisting street which takes you away from  what was Little Ireland that byword for all that was bad abo...

Now I could go into the history of New Wakefield Street.  It is the long twisting street which takes you  down to what was Little I...

© 2013 Peter Topping Now the Salisbury on Wakefield Street is another one of those old Manchester pubs which seems to offer the past up...