Andrew Simpson

I have Kevin Barker to thank for this picture. I am looking at two employees of Manchester Corporation posing for their photograph on route ...

Turn Moss Road is the one that runs off Edge Lane and down onto Turn Moss. Turn Moss Road, 2023 It’s a road that you could easily miss or ju...

Now if I wanted to walk to Stretford from the village in the late spring of 1847 I would have used the old road . It started at Hardy L...

The weir in 1915 I really don’t do enough pictures on the blog and rarely do those then and now sort of stories .  So here with the he...

It is 35 years since the last train ran from Stretford station which means that memories of a time before the tram will be fading Stret...

Now I often write about living in the township in the mid 19th century and I reckon if I had wanted to travel into Manchester it would have...

Mary Crowther was just 18 in 1765 when she was removed from Stretford by the authorities and sent back to Chorlton. They did thi...

Today I have started on the next book in the series, The History of Greater Manchester By Tram * So far, we have published four books which...

Now I know this will upset the residents of Stretford and no doubt bits of Chorlton too but it happened and here is the story. Strollin...

Now, the purist will immediately point out I was not in Chorlton nor the countryside. But on a hot summer’s day sometime at the end of the 1...

Now here is a picture of Edge Lane I haven’t seen before. It dates from around 1900 and was found by my friend Sally “in an old book, t...

  I know l shouldn't be surprised that Longford Hall was given over to use by the Red Cross as an Auxiliary Hospital during the Great Wa...

I am back with another of those excellent photographs from the collection of Jack Kennedy.* And this time we are with the Stretford Pa...

Drunkenness violence at the Royal Oak, October 1855 Alcohol related crimes posed a real problem, from both our own and the Sunday visi...

If you take your inspiration from that 1946 song by Bobby Troup and plan to motor west, ….. travelling the highway that's the best, you ...

It started with a talk on John and Enriqueta Rylands by the novelist Juliette Thomlinson and finished with some nice surprises.* Closed entr...

  I collect water troughs ….. eccentric perhaps but fun. And had I been on Chester Road in the summer of 1965 this one would have made the c...

I can think of no better place for Juliette Thomlinson to talk about her debut novel featuring John and Enriqueta Rylands than Stretford Pub...