Andrew Simpson

  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 never tire of the way that a chance picture of some one long dead sets off a story which goes off in a dozen different directions. And so,...

  It’s always in the detail, so while you need the “big picture” which places everything in the past into a context, it’s the little bits wh...

  Miss Hilda Peare has come back out of the shadows. Hilda Peare, 1917 She was a Red Cross Nurse during the Great War, who died  “of a sever...

  Miss Hilda Peare has come back out of the shadows. Hilda Peare, 1917 She was a Red Cross Nurse during the Great War, who died  “of a sever...

Now I like the way a story takes an unexpected twist and, in the process, sheds fresh light on the life of a soldier of the Great War. Sidne...

This is the story of William Eccles, who was born in 1892 in Gorton, served in the 19th Battalion of the Manchester Regiment and died in Vic...