Andrew Simpson

Now yesterday I was reflecting on the discovery of the Mayfield Baths which were opened in 1857, enlarged in the 1920s and destroyed in an ...

  Now like a lot of people I was fascinated at the news that “A large Victorian washhouse that served Manchester textile workers more than 1...

Just when you think that is the end of a story up pops something new. And just about an hour ago Andy Robertson sent over some fine p...

Yesterday I suggested that anyone interested in the old Leaf Street Baths in Hulme should get down there because after half a century of be...

Open to the sunlight again .............. the pool, 2016 I am always fascinated when a bit of our collective history is found. In thi...

I am back with the Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road.* They date from 1890, served the community of Openshaw for almost eighty years a...

Outside the Baths in 1960 Whitworth Baths on Ashton Old Road is a place I have passed countless times and never even knew existed. It...

Now one of the things I like about writing history is that you get to meet lots of people all of whom have a story to tell, but in the w...

I pretty much took the old Victorian and Edwardian Swimming Baths for granted.  After all when you are ten the ornate splendour of the ...

Victoria Baths, 1905 The swimming baths have to be one of the great municipal investments. They were relatively cheap, and many doubl...