Andrew Simpson

In The Woolwich Drill Hall circa 1965 Now one of the places I wish I had visited back in 1965 was the old Woolwich Drill Hall in the ...

There are many ways of saving a redundant public building . Now I don’t share the politics of the owner of Wetherspoons, but I must acknowle...

  Never throw anything away is by and large a lifestyle choice I have followed for my entire life. It allows me to rediscover odd ephemera, ...

So, I wonder what these men of the Post Office thought about dressing up in the summer of 1907 for the procession to mark Lifeboat Saturday ...

Now this is the former Parcel Post Office which straddled New Bridge Street, Moreton Street and the river. It is one of those buildings you ...

Now I am back with the telegram. For 189 years they were the quickest way of sending a message and the arrival of the Telegram Boy m...

Now yesterday I ran a story on a post box on Edge Lane, which featured the pictures of Robert Williamson and how it came to be restored ...

Now I like these two pictures of that post-box on the corner of Edge Lane and Hampton Road. They were taken by Robert Williamson a f...

Now Corporation Street is one of the more fascinating streets in the city. It started at Market Street crossed Cannon Street and ran on...

One ex Royal Mail post bike, 2015 Now a little bit of postal history slipped past me last year. For many it will seem a tad trivial b...

Three in a row, 2012, Knaresborough I am always fascinated at the little bits of my past which have long since vanished. And yesterda...

Now you don’t have to be mad keen on the history of the Postal Service to sign up to the newsletter of the British Postal Museum and Ar...

Now this is one you don’t see everyday. My friend Lawrence came across it recently, and promised to send me this picture. He tel...

It is a constant pleasure to come across new web sites increase my knowledge of our past. And by sheer chance I happened on this one on...

There was a time when there could be as many as six postal deliveries and collections in a day. A service which allowed people to post a ca...