Andrew Simpson

It is a long time since anyone paddled in the River Medlock at Mayfield but that was what was happening yesterday in the sun. Rivers and glo...

  History hasn’t been kind to Mayfield Cottages. Mayfield Cottages, 1849 There are no pictures of the properties, no reference to them in th...

Now, I have yet to wander down to Mayfield which contains “the new 6.5-acre Mayfield Park ….. Manchester city centre’s first public park. A...

 Now I never knew Mayfield Railway Station. It was the one built alongside what was London Road Railway Station, and is now Piccadilly. For ...

I am back at Mayfield , watching the continued work to transform a shabby and neglected part of the city into something interesting and exci...

There will still be many for whom Mayfield in Manchester means nothing.* Abandoned For others old enough to remember the Railway Station it...

I t is not everyday that you can claim to be in at the beginning of a new urban project which will transform a tired, neglected and almost f...

T oday Andy Robertson has reignited my fascination for Manchester’s rivers, especially those that have disappeared. He sent over a series of...

Mayfield is one of those places I have rediscovered. For years it was a dismal place of empty industrial sites, and car parks which clearly ...

  Now Mayfield is back in the news. Mayfield Railway Station, 2020 It’s the area just a little east of London Road and situated in the loop ...

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...

The Star and Garter on Fairfield Street is one of those pubs that most people know even if they have never stepped inside. The Star ...

Now I pretty much take for granted those tall railway viaducts which bring the trains into the city. Temperance Street, 2014 Most of ...