Andrew Simpson

Now we can all have slow days, which is how I came to roam the database of old postcards hosted by Tuck DB .* And having viewed their select...

Now you will have to be the wrong side of 40 to be able to recall this scene. The date on the card is 1936 but the scene with cargo shi...

Now I have no idea why I never got a copy of This Is London. * Cover of This is London I guess that there are only so many books th...

I like musicals, and so when I saw a trailer for a 1965 film about London and especially Bermondsey, I was hooked and sent off for the DVD....

Now it is just one of those things that you miss where you grew up. Coming home, 2013 It is such an obvious statement but is none t...

"Of the thousand millions of human beings that are said to constitute  the population of the entire globe, there are – socially, moral...

"The first rats I caught was when I was about nine years of age. I ketched them an Mr Strickland’s a large cow keeper, in Little Alban...

  There is a lot to be said for the recycling man with his van. I say man, but there is more than one, and as like as not it will be a woman...

Now when I want to fall back into the London of the 1850s, there is no better source than the observations of Henry Mayhew whose description...

Now if you are of a certain age this Red Rover will be your passport to many happy memories. Andy's ticket to roam, 1965 It offered unl...

Just when I spent my dinner times gazing out over the River talking about music, the chance of over time and pretty much everything is lost....

 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...

The thing about guide books is that they date so quickly.   But that can be what makes them so intriguing and that pretty much sums up ...

 This is one of those places instantly recognizable to anyone who lives south of the river. And despite the fact that the image and the pict...

Now as I dig deeper into the story of the Manchester children’s charity I have become fascinated by the people who toiled tirelessly to i...

Cover of What Happened to Tom Mix? 1969 Now it is not often that you get to read an autobiography of someone you knew. And when I say...

The Thames Flows Down is another of those wonderful children's books written in the 1950s. It was the companion to   A Valley G...

The story of one house in Peckham over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* The river, 1977 It is ...

Now the thing about adventures is that they are best done with friends. It lessens the risks and more importantly offers up plenty of o...