Andrew Simpson

A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watch a...

Now you will have to be the wrong side of 40 to be able to recall this scene. The date on the card is 1936 but the scene with cargo shi...

  I am a great admirer of Mary Mills and her work which over the years has revealed the industrial archaeology of where I grew up. Entitled ...

Just when I spent my dinner times gazing out over the River talking about music, the chance of over time and pretty much everything is lost....

  Now, even on an August morning with the promise of a hot day ahead, standing at the bus stop opposite the Woolwich Ferry at 5 in the morni...

Now anyone who has walked this bit of the River at Greenwich will remember the noise of the water lapping the stones and the smell. It ...

It will have been in 1979, and I guess it was sometime in the summer and on a whim, I took a trip on the River. Now if you were born and gre...

 I don’t know if cargo ships still berth along my bit of the River at Greenwich. But someone will know, and I hope will tell me. I left Lond...

You can never have enough pictures of the Woolwich Ferry, and so it proved again yesterday when I posted a picture of one of the old ferries...

Enough said. Location; Woolwich Picture; the ferry, Woolwich, 2012, from the collection of Andrew Simpson

Now for many the Thames Barrier will just be one of those bits of river furniture, but for those of us who remember it being built, it was ...

Now here is another of those short series taken from the family archive. All were taken around 1979 and offer up scenes of the River wh...

Now I like the way stories shoot off in unexpected directions and so it is with this one which flows from descriptions of the river, to mutu...

Now here is another of those short series taken from the family archive. All were taken around 1979 and offer up scenes of the River wh...

It will be something like 46 years ago that I walked beside the River snapping away with a brand new camera. I can't pretend the results...

Now the project is simple, take an image of a building we all love and turn it into the style of poster which was popular in the middle de...

Now I suppose we all have our favourite bridge over the Thames. Nocturne in Black & Gold the Falling Rocket, 1872-75 Most touri...

Now here is another of those short series taken from the family archive. All were taken around 1979 and offer up scenes of the River w...

This is St Mary’s Church in Rotherhithe in the summer of 1979, although until a few minutes ago I had no idea of its name or location. St Ma...

A short series taken from one day when I walked along the River. Back then the Thames was still a place to to earn a wage and watc...