Andrew Simpson

We will never know whether Lizzie’s aunt appreciated this picture postcard of our Fire Station. But as she had been receiving regular s...

Now I can’t be sure when this picture was taken. The postmark records that it was sent at 11 am on September 20th 1907, but picture pos...

Now, I don’t for one minute think that when Lizzie sent this picture postcard to her auntie in Bridlington, that she ever thought it would ...

Now a while ago I set down a challenge to find some of our lost cinemas , and quick as a flash Tricia came back with a first and the promi...

Now as everyone knows there can always be more than one story behind a picture postcard. The first is the image on the front which in a...

Now anyone who walked up to the High Street from anywhere along Well Hall Road may well have wondered about these houses. I was always ...

I like the way there is always a story, and here is a good one. The date is October 20th 1906 and Lizzie has selected this picture of E...

Now I have just gone off and ordered the book, Ferries of the Lower Thames by Joan Tucker on the recommendations of my old friend Tricia. ...

Now I grant you it’s not the zippiest of titles but it does the business. Wilmslow Road, date unknown We are on Wilmslow Road althoug...

I think this will be the last of the stories about the young officer who died in 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. Unknown young sol...

Now it is easy to deride social networks and write them off as the preserve of the trivial and the vain but that is to ignore their potenti...

I wonder who this young man was. This question has been preoccupying the thoughts of my friend Tricia from Bexley who sent me the pic...