Andrew Simpson

Now, somewhere I have a complete collection of press cuttings about Manchester's new road scheme, which resulted in huge rush hour cong...

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...

There will still be some people who remember the close network of streets and houses that stretched back from Oxford Road to the Medlock, an...

Now, this is one of the pictures I took of a demonstration in the 1980s. We are on Oxford Road heading towards the railway station, and...

Now, I know we haven’t lost Oxford Road, but bits of it have been so transformed that it is as if it never existed. The stretch in ques...

University Green is that space off Oxford Road which on a warm sunny day is the perfect place to take in a drink with a friend or just watch...

For anyone who regularly travels along the Oxford Road corridor this building will be very familiar. It is home to the University’s Stu...

Now I have taken this golden sign for granted across the decades. But today I stopped and snapped away. It’s the Williamson Research Centre,...

 I like this picture postcard which was sent from Le Harve in the August of 1915. And what I particularly like is the way the name has been ...

Larva lamps I have known Now it is odd the way that some decades get the thumbs up and others are relegated to the dustbin of history ....

I am back with that forgotten billiard hall on Wilbraham Road and a series of twisty turney paths that reinforce that old idea that history ...

It will be a full half century and more since I regularly passed the University buildings on Oxford Road. And even then, it was just a passi...

Now, this is one of the pictures I took of a demonstration in the 1980s. We are on Oxford Road just a little down from All Saints and i...

The caption is less than revealing and merely states that it’s Oxford Road, Site of Students Union. .Now I am a little puzzled because...

Now All Saints on Oxford Road has been one of my haunts for over half a century and it is somewhere I still regularly return to. Grosvenor B...