Andrew Simpson

Now I really wish I knew just what the “Tale at Eltham" was, but alas it is lost. Nor I suspect did anyone know just what had gone on i...

I like this picture postcard, but have never thought about writing its story. I suppose that is because it is one of those general pict...

Now I have no idea who Mel is or was or when she received this postcard from Chris, but it’s an intriguing little mystery. I am sure so...

Now, sometimes you just get lost in a story. It seemed easy enough, or so I thought.   The German on the picture postcard would be easy to t...

I doubt we will ever know who the person was who wrote to Miss Eva Stewart, or for that matter why they had left Ireland, or  the identity ...

It began as a story about a Salford postcard and a question about Gertie and Delia who were mentioned on the back which became the inspirat...

Now in the great age of the picture postcard, you could send a card in the morning confident it would be there by later in the day. All...

Now I think we take advertising posters for granted, and really only get interested when the poster or the advertising campaign draws us in,...

Now I will have to take advice on this one but I think Beach Lawns at Weston-Super-Mare may be all that is left of a trail I have been on f...

Now, I say looking west, but these young men may have been destined for the Eastern Front. But the passage of a century and a bit has made i...

Now as we move effortlessly into August  the season of sending holiday postcards will once have been in full swing.. Not of course that...

There is always a story behind a picture postcard. In most cases it is the image which takes you to a place or an event long gone and t...

“Having a nice time, sea rough seen some people I know” and with that Betty plunged into a description of the places she had seen and some ...

Now as we remain in winter the season of sending holiday postcards has yet to start up. So with that in mind here is number two of a ...

Now, I can’t make my mind up about this picture postcard which was sent in the March of 1911. The historian in me is drawn into what quite c...

I think you will have to have eaten a truck load of Five Boys chocolate bars to remember this poster. Once a long time ago the five boys wer...

Now there is a lot going on in this picture . Church parade with the 8th Manchester's circa 1911 We are at Garstang camp with the...

Now I know I will never find the identity of Rex. He sent this postcard to Miss Marion Dilnut of 280 Bermondsey Street, south east Lond...

Now there may seem nothing remarkable about number 6 Castle Street in Widnes.   It looks exactly like the house we bought in Ashton-Und...

Greetings from Llandudno, 1907 Just occasionally you get the opportunity to pursue a story which you have no idea where it will end up ...