Andrew Simpson

The Royal Herbert, date unknown Now the story of the Royal Herbert has just got a lot more exciting and that has a lot to do with a fas...

"Myself" date unknown Now while I am pretty sure where this picture outside the Royal Herbert  was taken I am no nearer to ...

Now of all the records, the photographs and stories of the Manchester Blitz this little envelope is as powerful a reminder of the destruc...

After over 80 years a war memorial to some of the men who fought in the Great War has come out of the shadows. The memorial went into storag...

It began with this simple grave stone in Southern Cemetery to a young man who died far from his home having crossed the world to fight at...

Sometimes despite a heap of research the stories just don’t come together. Bomb damage, Manchester, 1941 And so, it is with a family of four...

I doubt I will ever get to the full story of this photograph but as my friend Sally said when she showed the picture to me “you just keep s...

  Miss Hilda Peare has come back out of the shadows. Hilda Peare, 1917 She was a Red Cross Nurse during the Great War, who died  “of a sever...

This memorial stone marks the grave of James Duncan Spence and his wife Jenefer (née Naylor) and includes a dedication to their son Samuel w...

  Miss Hilda Peare has come back out of the shadows. Hilda Peare, 1917 She was a Red Cross Nurse during the Great War, who died  “of a sever...

 This is one of the more than a million bronze memorials which were issued posthumously to the families of servicemen and women who died dur...

An occasional series celebrating the old Manchester Corporation trams……. and by extension all Corporation trams everywhere. I don’t hav...

I am the first to admit that speculating on the relationship between a Jeanne Vignot in France and the mystery resident of Clyde Road , is ...

A walk in Southern Cemetery will not appeal to everyone, but there is a tranquilly, and beauty in the place. And of course a lot of h...

  Odd what pops through the letter box as junk mail. Through the door, 2021 I am always prepared for the heaps of takeaway menus, offers of ...