Andrew Simpson

Now I am back with Peterloo and the dastardly actions of the Manchester Yeomanry who on August 16th, 1819, charged a peaceful crowd in St P...

I am looking at a picture Andy Robertson took back in 2018 of no. 75 Port Street. The White Lion as was, 2018 Andy told me that   ...

 History hasn’t been kind to Little Ancoats Street. Little Ancoats Street from Newton Street, 2019 It is one of those very narrow streets, w...

This is the Bridge Inn on Fairfield Street as it was in 1970. And it is a pub I will have passed countless times on the bus on the journey t...

Now one of the things that continues to puzzle me is the absence of pictures of the inside of Manchester pubs. I suppose the grand prof...

 It began as a picture. Faded glory, 2023 And for anyone who knows Hulme, it is that iconic building which is the Junction Hotel. Today it i...

History hasn’t been kind to Little Ancoats Street. Little Ancoats Street from Newton Street, 2019 It is one of those very narrow stre...

Now, Tommy Ducks remains a legendary place in the history of the city. There will be those who remember the underwear pined on the ceiling, ...

The trouble with being 72 is that lots of things I did blend into a heap of vague memories. So, I might well have drunk in the Anson in Long...

Now I like Andy‘s picture of the Railway which is on Berry Brow at Clayton Bridge. It is a pub I never visited, but I bet there will be some...

Now I am the first to admit that the title is a tad contrived. The Lord Nelson circa 2010 But the 27 ships of the Royal Navy were commande...

Yesterday was a special event as family, friends and members of CAMRA came together to celebrate Nancy Swanick’s fifty years in charge of th...

Now I am never surprised at how a story takes you off down a research path which ends up somewhere totally different to where you expected....

T he Haxby Hotel in Gorton had a short life. The Haxby Hotel, 2021 It was opened in 1933, closed in 2007 and was converted in “to a single r...

F arewell the Church Inn Happier Times, 2015 You were a pub I never visited,  But friends spoke highly of you And of that long tradition of ...