Andrew Simpson

Now here is a little piece of our past which makes me very happy. The picture was taken in 1980 and confirms that I wasn’t imagining th...

  Now I am pretty confident that this one will bring up a rich collection of memories. It continued trading into the 1980s and was a wo...

This was when the parish church yard got its last makeover. But it will have been in the early 1980s and involved clearing away many of ...

Now I had quite forgotten this picture, which had sat as a negative in the cellar for four decades. And I am rather pleased it has come...

This is the second in the short series of the lost and forgotten pictures of Chorlton. It sat in our cellar with a heap of other old ne...

This is Beech Road as it was just forty years ago. Where today there is a studio, a gallery, and a clothes shop, there was a flower sho...

Now some will already have picked up on the  series, The lost Manchester Collection , and the story behind how the pictures came to light.*...

I don’t usually do then and now pictures, and certainly not without a story, but today I shall. Here are two both from the Wilton end...

The meadows are a special place for me. During the time the lads were growing up it was a place we went to a lot, often with the dog an...

Now at first glance, this appears a run of the mill picture of Chorlton Green with the lych gate, parish church yard and the pub in the dis...

It’s odd just what you forget. Now Richard and Muriel’s green grocer’s shop on Beech Road is remembered with fondness by many of us but...

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 I know I am on Ivygreen Road and the date will be around 1980 but exactly where almost defeats me. So, hence the mystery. My very...

Now there is enough detail in the picture to anchor it in a time long before, but well within living memory. We are of course on the ...

Now I am not one to shout about the passing of the traditional high street. I do wish that they hadn’t vanished, but online shopping,...

Any discussion on which is the oldest retailer still in business will feature Etchells the newsagents. Once the answer would have been ...

Now in the early 1980s there were those that believed the formation of the SDP would prove a mould breaking event which would transform Bri...

It is easy to pass glib comments about the demise of the traditional shops in Chorlton and the rise of the bar culture. And there will ...

This is another of those scenes I have pretty much forgotten. We are in the parish graveyard, sometime before the make over, which la...

Now I wonder who caught the 132 or 134 from this bus stop opposite the parish churchyard, or for that matter where the bus went. I can ...