Andrew Simpson

St Ann's Church, 1793 I am on the streets of Manchester in the early 1830s in the company of J T Slugg* and in search of Antonio P...

Rosa in Naples 1961 This is one of my favourite pictures of Rosa. It was taken in Naples when she was just 21 during the summer of...

Your name is a very important part of your identity and for some people in some parts of the world it is an immediate clue to where the ...

I have tried finding a picture of number 3 Jersey Street but with out success It has gone now, and the site has been developed as one...

I am back in what was Little Italy in the April of 1881.*   To be exact I am on the small stretch of Gun Street which runs from Blosso...

Marshall Street is one of the those places that is ripe for development, and the only puzzle is why it has not yet been filled with prim...

Antonio Peduzzi was from Lombardy and settled in Manchester around 1810, ran a series of successful businesses, was married twice and en...

Over the last few months I have become more and more interested in the stories of those who came here looking for a new life.  So as a...

Now I have been reflecting on Little Italy in Ancoats.* And the stories have prompted quite a bit of interest. Last week I got a se...