Andrew Simpson

We take for granted that breakfast was and still is for many something you have at home but this has not always been the case.   Throughout ...

This is a photograph of London Road where it joins Store Street and we are in 1895. London Road, 1895 There is nothing very remarkable about...

Now I am well aware this is a cheat ............. less a gasholder and more the inside of the Rochale Road Gas works. But I have included...

Advertising the Palace Theatre, 1896 Once the man with a sandwich board was a common site on the streets of all our towns and cities. ...

I t is of course an obvious observation that political fortunes wax and wane, and the mould breaking gains of one year become the pit of ele...

I am looking at a picture of the Manchester Assize Courts which I have added to the collection. It was donated by my old friend David H...

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

Now the way a story comes to light can be as fascinating and revealing as the actual story.  St John Street showing the home of the P...

It is one of those things about city life that there is always someone who will sell you almost anything. Just over a hundred years ago...

Once the night watchman would have been a familiar sight sitting beside his hut keeping warm at the brazier and maintaining a solitary vi...

I have spent part of the afternoon looking through a wonderful collection of pictures of Manchester from the late 19th century . They ...

Now I didn’t expect to find Newgate on the directories, even when this picture was taken in the 1890s the inhabitants of this closed court ...

 I doubt I would ever have known about a row of terraced houses beside the River Medlock in the heart of the city and certainly would not ha...

Now I fell on this picture postcard of the flower seller by St Ann’s Square fully intending to write about a century of selling flowers a...

Now until recently I had no idea that there was an organisation called the Cinderella Club or of its links to the wider socialist movemen...

Now yesterday I was on Angel Street exploring the stories behind the doors of the lodging houses, of which there were many in the surroundin...