Andrew Simpson

The caption is not over helpful.   Just “Car 929, AEI Trafford Park.”   But I guess we will be sometime in the late 1930s or ‘40s. T...

I was never allowed to take Geography O level which may account for my reluctance to  be precise on the location of the Barton Road Swing Br...

Now I am back in Walkden Gardens which is a place I have never visited and yet has begun to offer up some fascinating stories .* All of whic...

I am intrigued by this stone road sign and its story. Andy Robertson sent the pictures over, adding  “I spotted this on the corner of Derbys...

There is always something fascinating and a bit sad at capturing the end of a building. Even more so when, as here Andy, was on hand to...

 From Ron Stubley Picture; f rom the collection of Ron Stubley, 2017

Now, I have passed that brick arch countless times and never clocked the inscription which sits a little way off. Nor am I alo...

Now there is nothing more embarrassing than discovering you have got a story so wrong.  But it happens even though on this one I sho...

Now never say that the blog is just about the past. Here is 39 Talbot Road as it was in September of last year and yesterday as recorde...

Now I know there will be a story here and more over someone will come back with a full account of the history of the Petrograd Boot Compa...

Now this began as a one off showing pictures from a Derby foundry sometime in the 1930s but given my friend Sally’s wonderful collection ...

This is one of those pictures which I guess will never off up its full story. I know that these were a group of men employed by Redpath...

Now there will be lots of stories about Trafford Press and the adjoining buildings  running along Chester Road to Empress Street. Once ...