Andrew Simpson

Now there will be those who shake their heads in dismay at this picture of a Manchester Corporation Tramways sign and mutter how boring. ...

Today and for the next few weeks I shall be celebrating the humble petrol pump, through the art work of my friend Ann Love. A few week...

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 ...

Now I am always surprised at what was once familiar street furniture can disappear like snow in the winter sun. And looking at this 196...

  Now , there is so much going on in this picture that its hard to know where to start. But I suppose it is the man with the ladder, mending...

Today I have inducted into my Hall of Fame collection of all things street furniture this slightly worn but fine example of a round metal ac...

Now I knew when I launched the new series on Gasholders   I was pretty confident it would make a stir. And sure enough my friend Andy c...

Now I grant you they may not seem the most compelling things to write about or indeed to asdmire. But if you are of a certain age and l...

It is as much a piece of history as the Penny Farthing bike or the old fashioned tram.   I am trying to remember when I would have use...

Now I am impressed. Back in 2019 Karine discovered seven coal hole covers on Kirkside Road in Blackheath, and quick as a flash she photo...

Now, I have a new obsession, and it is those iron coal hole covers, which have all but vanished. Once they were a feature of most house...

There are many ways to share a holiday ….. from picture postcards to instant mobile photos and of course the post trip presi. Madrid, 2025 A...

Or as we often say in our house … “a wall of sardines, date stamped, and a bit of street furniture brought to you by Fucoli-Somepal”. A wall...

The challenge is to write a history of Eltham in just 20 objects which are in no particular order, and have been selected purely at rando...

  It has been a while since I inducted an object into the Street Furniture Hall of Fame. This one comes from the Lake District and was uncov...

Anyone who doesn’t share my fascination for coal holes and street furniture should turn away. Barlow Moor Road, 2020  I have been...

Now, I have a new obsession, and it is those iron coal hole covers, which have all but vanished. Once they were a feature of most house...

Well it had to happen ............. the one bit of street furniture I have consistently ignored, so here is the start of a series on the hu...

Now at 74 those modern vending machines which are built like a house, offer infinite variety of things to eat do rather challenge me. Polo m...