Andrew Simpson

Rochdale Road and Swan Street 1900 This is another of those images of Manchester street life by Samuel Lawrence Coulthurst. It was ta...

Angel Street, 1901 Sometimes a phrase captures your imagination, and so it is with "Sellers of Sleep", which is a French, t...

Trade card, 1885 Now somewhere I know I will find at least one of the three “life size busts , painted in oil on canvas, from photograp...

Oldham Street looking towards New Cross There is something magic about this picture of Oldham Street which dates from around 1900. An...

Now I am back with Mr Banks that remarkable photographer.  Selling a photograph circa 1880 He was one of those self made Victorians w...

Now I can be fairly confident that Mr Banks took this picture of Oxford Street sometime before 1912, but more about that later. In the ...

Uppermill circa 1890 Robert Banks was one of those remarkable Victorian self made men, who went from being a woollen piercer in a mill ...

Now I remain fascinated by what can turn up in an old cupboard, under the floor boards or in this case the family picture album. And fo...

We are on Blackfriars Street sometime at the beginning of April 1894. Now I can be pretty certain of that because our old friend Samuel...

Inside the Ryalands, circa 1900 Now Mr Banks can never be said to have missed an opportunity. He was one of those self made Victorian...

Anyone who has grown up in a terraced street in the older parts of our towns and cities will recognise the wicket that has been chalked o...

This is one of those stories which bring together Manchester and Woolwich along with a soldier from the Great War and a new resource for an...

Now tracking down the residents of some common lodging houses in the seedier part of Manchester in the late 19th century was never going ...

Angel Street in 1901 I am back on Angel Street between 1897 and 1901. Recently    I wandered down the street in the company of Samuel...