Andrew Simpson

  Mr. Billington’s new book The Churchyards & Cemeteries of Urmston, Flixton & Davyhulme, is more than just a record of gravestone, ...

  Now long before text messages Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter, there was the picture postcard. For a small price our great grandparents, co...

Now long before test messages Face book, WhatsApp and Twitter, there was the picture postcard. For a small price our great grandparents, cou...

So for anyone who has ever wondered how a history book is written or how two authors with a love of the same place and  with heaps of local ...

Now there will be many who are better placed than me to write about Bob Potts. Bob with his Reminiscences of a Flixton Boyhood I only really...

 I like the way that local authors Michael Billington and Bob Potts have fallen back on an old tradition in publishing their new book, Urms...

I hope Simpson’s Ready Foods in Urmston will endure, even though the factory has closed and soon the site will be an estate of smart town...

Now, the audience was large and expectant. The large and expectant audience anticipating a good night After all it is a long time sin...

And of course the answer is no there won’t be, ....... Simpsons Ready Made Food Ltd, closed a while ago and the site is being readied for ...

Now when I first came to Manchester I was intrigued by the brand of ready made foods made by Simpsons of Urmston. I am no relation and ...

Now I freely admit that the blog is out of its comfort zone and that my knowledge of Urmston is limited. But Andy Robertson keeps bring...

Now just by chance I stumbled across my copy of John Gorton’s Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland and as you do I went lo...

The Lord Nelson is one of those grand old public houses which you know has a history. That said I have yet to discover its full story. ...

Now I know when I am at the reaches of my knowledge and so rather than state the obvious with this picture by Andy Robertson or worse get...

Now the blog knows no boundaries and nor for that matter does Andy Robertson who was out on Flixton Road earlier last month and decided t...

The hall in 1988 Now I couldn’t resist using this image of the old Temperance Hall in Urmston. I passed a few years back and of cours...

I am never too keen on these picture postcards which pack four of five images together. Now it is true that you do get more for your mo...