Andrew Simpson

Florence, 2012 Now if you belong to that generation which was born just after the last world war, who grew up with the sound of Buddy H...

Fairfield Street Now there is nothing original in showing off a collection of doors. But I was reminded of just how many pictures of ...

So, what is it about the need some people have to write on walls? Bits that escaped the scribblers, Rome, 2007 Now I am not thinking about t...

 Now this is one I found fascinating. It is the story of The Sack of Rome in 1527 from the series In Our Time. "Melvyn Bragg and guests...

I have never lost my fascination for Rome. I have friends who long ago fell in love with Venice, others who keep going back to Floren...

Now, if you know where to look you can find a tram in Naples.   On the Corso Garibaldi, 2006 This one runs to the Corso Garibaldi and...

It was my first time in Rome and as you do we wandered down to the heart of ancient Rom e. The Emperor Augustus ….. or to be strictly accura...

Now don’t you just hate it when on a cold grey wet day here in Manchester someone parades holiday pictures. Worse still if they a...

The parcel arrived this week, and was meant to be here for Christmas. But I suppose  given the inevitable Christmas “rush” and the pandemic,...

Down every street another ruin, and around every corner another piazza Pictures; from the collection of Andrew Simpson...

Now I remain fascinated by other people’s pictures. It is partly because the pictures are often of places, I have never been, but also ...

Now I remain fascinated by other people’s pictures. It is partly because the pictures are often of places, I have never been, but also ...

I t was another one of those days when we got lost in Rome. Now I know how pretentious that sounds but it was true, and it was hot, g...

We were looking for somewhere to eat and found the Pantheon. Nothing to say really. Location: Rome Picture, Rome, 2011, fr...

Now we had gone looking for that floating dance floor, the one Gregory Peck took Audrey Hepburn to in Roman Holiday . I was determined ...

Now the project is simple, take an image of a building we all love and turn it into the style of poster which was popular in the middle de...

Now when in Rome I do the ruins, like any tourist, after all if you have had a love affair with Roman history since you were seven it is ob...

Now , I am looking forward to listening to the story of Edward Gibbon from the series In Our Time on Radio 4. A bit of Rome a bit knocked a...

Now I remain fascinated by other people’s pictures. It is partly because the pictures are often of places, I have never been, but al...

Now I am the first to admit that these pictures do not do justice to the main railway station in Rome. But there you are, they are mine...