Andrew Simpson

The picture may not win any prizes for top quality image of the year. But then it was 1979 and I was just starting out on taking photographs...

Now for anyone who doesn’t remember the Town Hall when it still had nearly a century of Manchester soot and grime, here is the picture. ...

So, here are two pictures probably taken minutes apart sometime around 2002. For years they had sat in a folder tucked away in another folde...

Now if you live in Manchester or like me claim it as your adopted city the chances are that you will have taken a picture of the Town Hal...

Now this is not one of the best quality postcards in the collection but it is one of the only ones I have of the Town Hall and Albert Sq...

There will be countless pictures of our Town Hall, taken from every angle, and from almost every decade since the place was opened. But give...

I wonder what James Fraser and his fellow occupants of Albert Square think about being locked up behind those tall walls in front of the Tow...

Well I could hardly leave our own Town Hall out of the collection .* It is a building I have been fascinated by for nearly half a centu...

Work on the continued restoration of the Town Hall continues apace. And yesterday I wandered into Albert Square to look over the progress. ...

Now for pretty much a full century this view of the Town Hall had been obscured by buildings and even with the installation of the Peace ...