Andrew Simpson

This is how I remember Edge Street, which is part of that warren of streets which is now known as the Northern Quarter. Back in the lat...

Smithfield Wholesale Fish Market, 1900 We were in the Northern Quarter recently showing some of the family around this part of the cit...

Spear Street is one of those long thin streets which you either know intimately or stumble across by accident. That bit of Spear Street in 2...

Now Edge Street does what the Northern Quarter does well. Edge Street, 2021 It is a longish narrow road connecting Oak Street to High Stree...

January in the Northern Quarter. Location; The Northern Quarter Picture; Passing Piemaster, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

They come in many different sizes, styles and artistic quality, but the artwork across the Northern Quarter adds to the “quirky” nature of t...

Parked up Location; Newton Street, Manchester Picture; Parked Up, 2023, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

I became a regular at the Royal Exchange Theatre some time around 1977, just a year or so after it opened with its futuristic looking struct...

Now , I say forgotten but it may just be that the little garden at the bottom of Hilton Street is just resting, and its gardeners will retur...

Now, I like the way that you can come across a bit of history on a Manchester Street. Which in this case is not a building where you go look...

  It is one of those obvious observations that  just like nature abhors a vacuum, property developers and city centre car parks tend to come...

Now, I am of course playing a little hard and fast with the passing of Red Lion Street. Red Lion Street, 2021 Even after the planning applic...

Now I don’t pretend this is the best picture of a window, but gaze on it with interest, because soon it will be  gone and with it the his...

Now I always like those urban pictures which offer up shapes against the sky. And clearly Andy Robertson does too, because he took t...

Now there will be a story about this space. It will include the people who lived and worked there and a heap more about when it was bui...

If you go down to the Northern Quarter be ready for a few surprises. Of all the places in the city it is one of those which seem to cha...

Now not the most zippy of titles I know but 49 years ago I stumbled across the place and yesterday I was back there. Of course 49 ...

I like the Northern Quarter. The name may be new and there is lots of new development but there are still a shed load of quirky shops and...

Now the old Smithfield Market Hall always seemed to me to me to sum up the sad decline of this bit of Manchester. Peter's painting ...

I like the idea of a painting of a painting. We were out in the Northern Quarter researching the new Manchester Pub book and stopped to...