Andrew Simpson

Some memories just do not go away despite the passage of a full half century. Edmund Waller School, 2007 This one I have carried for ...

The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* It’s odd what you...

The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* Eagle Annual, 1963 ...

Now if like me you grew up in one of the inner London boroughs the chances are that one afternoon a week you were bused out to Ewell in Sur...

I wonder what happened to Michael Tickner, Philip Broome and Paul Driver. They along with Jimmy O’Donnell, and John Cox were part of...

Now I wonder just what eight records we would all take away to that desert island. It’s not a causal question and if you think about ...

Every generation has that defining moment when a public event triggers a lasting memory of where they were and what they were doing when th...

This is a fog story. But not one of those autumnal mist type but the real pea souper sort I grew up with and was really smog which wa...

Samuel Pepys, 1962 Mama said there'll be days like this, There'll be days like this, my mama said* was not a song I remember ba...

Now it’s almost impossible to recreate an adventure you had when you were ten back in the summer of 1960. But as you do I tried and it ...

The second of an occasional series contributed by readers who also grew up in south east London. Here Barny remembers the school trips ...

The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* Now if there is one...

The story of one house in Lausanne Road over a century and a half, and of one family who lived there in the 1950s.* Now mother came ...

Now I have no idea why I never got a copy of This Is London.* Cover of this is London I guess that there are only so many books that ...

The one sure certainty of failing the 11 plus was that you went to a secondary modern school. Beginning Samuel Pepys, 1961 Not of c...

Dad circa 1947 I remember the first time I went to Brighton. It will have been sometime in the autumn of 1963 and was what has become...