Andrew Simpson

Now if there is a simple lesson about old photographs it’s that you should never take them at face value. So here is a picture from Pet...

Now back in the summer of 1937 I could have had three cinemas to choose from here in Chorlton and of these the most impressive was the Sav...

Now I can’t be certain when this photograph of the Rivoli on Barlow Moor Road was taken but given that the cinema opened in November 1936 a...

Now I am the first to admit that you would be hard put to fit this wooden door into the history of a farm in Chorlton. Outside the stab...

It is easy to forget that just two generations ago we still had a number of independent dairies here in Chorlton and stories of being sent ...

Yesterday I stood on exactly the same spot where young Nellie Spencer posed for this picture in the summer of 1925 and as you do I looked ...

More than anything it’s the detail that draws you in to this photograph of Annie  and Nelly  outside 67 Hawthorn Road in the spring of 1930...

This is young Annie Magee aged fifteen in 1923 outside her home on what is now Ivy Green Road. Miss Annie Magee in 1923 It comes from ...

Now I say 1920 but it could equally be any time between then and 1922. And this I know because it comes from a collection of family ph...