Andrew Simpson

Now there are not that many pictures of Hardy Farm and that is a shame. I included one of the most well known in the book on Chorlton ...

Cannon Court has tidied its act up  a lot since I first stumbled across it in 1969, soon after I arrived in Manchester. 1967 I rememb...

When you live in a place, it is easy to miss how it is changing. This is Piccadilly in 1964, and I can remember going in all of those s...

I have to admit it is a scene which is very familiar and like all good pictures from the past I seem to remember it as monochrome. O...

And not just the north but of working class communities across the country. This scene is, I think Lower Byrom Street, but I could be w...

Now one of the advantages of a misspent youth is that I am fairly familiar with the streets of Manchester. From 1969 for three years as...

I won’t be alone in remembering these buildings. We are at the top of Oxford Street where it joins St Peter’s Square, and of the four ...

Now the next time you are in the Co-op on Wilbraham Road, spare a thought for the buildings that once stood on this spot. They consiste...

Now, with the passage of a full half century, it is the detail you forget. I stood at the bus stops outside the old Refuge Building for...

Now, for me, these images perfectly capture   that time when I was growing up. And I suspect it will be the same for many others wh...

This is one of those pictures I wish I had taken. We are at the official opening of the Mancunian Way on May 5th, 1967, which was a Fri...

This is one of those pictures I wish I had taken. We are on Princess Street approaching Whitworth Street, and given that it’s almost mi...

Now this is the Manchester of my youth. I say youth but I was just turning 19 and many of the old Victorian and Edwardian buildings wer...

I think this might be the last in the series of Didsbury in the 1960s. I say that but I am sure it’s a promise I won’t keep. This pic...

It’s been a while since I have been in the library and had quite forgotten the simplicity of the design. It was built in fulfilment of...

Now, I don’t remember the bowling green on the Rec, by Beech Road, but lots of people over the years have talked about it. I have alway...

Now I belong to a generation that was dragged round wool shops as a child. My mum, her friend and later my sisters all knitted and so t...

Now I always like to dig deep, trawling the historic records to support a picture. But this time I rather think I will just leave it at...

This is Albert Square in 1956, and while it would be a full thirteen years before I discovered it, the scene in front of us was pretty much...

Now I am the first to admit it’s a bit of a silly title but that is exactly what my friend Neil did, once under the river at Woolwich and t...