Andrew Simpson

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Showing posts with label Manchester Housing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manchester Housing. Show all posts
Monday, 25 May 2026

Walking the mean streets of Manchester in the 1880s ………

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Now, many of us will have been brought up with the stories of the appalling housing conditions in our cities, towns, and villages in the 19t...
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Sunday, 18 January 2026

Lost stories in a forgotten street ……. the one behind Deansgate

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Now it is easy to shudder and feel outrage at the accounts of housing conditions in the poor parts of Manchester in the first half of the 19...
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Tuesday, 18 March 2025

On discovering Ainsworth Court …… a bit of that very ….. very old Manchester

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Today I found Ainsworth Court which was off Long Millgate in the heart of the older part of Manchester. Ainsworth Court, 1851 I can’t claim ...
Saturday, 19 February 2022

Ghost streets …….. and the onward march of the cranes

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Now it seems everywhere you look there are those cranes which relentlessly march across the city, leaving in their wake a mix of tall reside...
Wednesday, 7 July 2021

One hundred years of one house in Chorlton …. part 122 ....... Totò Looks For A House

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The continuing story of the house Joe and Mary Ann Scott lived in for over 50 years and the families that have lived here since. * Now I d...
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