Andrew Simpson

I really liked this metal and glass structure. It was in the Corn Exchange beside Exchange Square, and I always thought it was an inn...

  You won’t find Scholes Square today. Scholes Square, 1908 I only came across it by accident when looking for pictures of London Road on Ma...

  This is where we lived for one carefree year when we were very young. Home, Butterworth Street, 1986 It was the January of 1972, and we ha...

Now it is pretty much one of those dismal observations that “the poor are always with us” by which I simply mean that poverty today is stil...

 Now I wonder how long this building has left?  It stands on the corner of Dantzic Street and Throrniley Brow in the shadow of the Print Wo...

Another in the occasional series of Lost Manchester. Planning permission had been granted in 1968 and after a hiccup building began in ...

For as long as I have lived in Manchester I have had to cope with jokes about Manchester and the rain. Even now after over forty years ...

It is remarkable how quickly you can forget a building. Not that I suspect many will mourn the passing of Elisabeth House which was all...

Now I don’t venture up on to Rochdale Road very often but even on the few occasions I have I never clocked this building as a pub. Well...