Andrew Simpson

Well Hall House date unknown Now I am fascinated by Well Hall House. It was built in 1733, replacing the Tudor manor house and was de...

Woolwich Common, 1970 Some memories stay with you and are as vivid now as they were then. I was sixteen, it was the summer of 1966 a...

Now some stories just have a habit of not wanting to go away. They stay hanging around challenging you to go off and discover something...

Now there is a fine line between nostalgia and remembering the past. The first pretty much takes you nowhere and often distorts the p...

Kidbrook Lane in 1872 with the Nine Fields to the north Now I know there will be people who know of the existence of the Nine Fields ju...

Now I have no idea when this picture was taken.  I do know that it will date from after 1931 when the roundabout was built which accord...

Now it would be a full 28 years after the Well Odeon was open that I first saw a film there. And of course I have no idea what the film...

I am back in Well Hall, or to be more accurate just north of what was Well Hall House and heading north through what is now the Progress ...

Well Hall in 1746 Walk along Well Hall Road which runs from the High Street north to Shooters Hill  on a sunny day and  it is a pleasan...

Well Hall Parade in 1907 Now I am back with two more from Greenwich’s collection of old photographs. They are both of Well Hall Road...

Well Hall House from Well Hall Road, 1909 Well Hall House has passed out of living memory. It was built in 1733, was home to some Elt...

2d token issued by the R.A.C.S., date unknown It’s so easy to lose so much of our history. Now the big things like the homes of the g...

I have no idea of the age or origin of the carved bird’s head. It has just always been part of my life, first as a child growing up in ...

Now  I am revisiting Saturday morning pictures and in particular the Odeon at Well Hall . And as ever the memories came flooding back w...

An occasional series on what I miss about the place where I grew up.* Now I say lost but that would not be strictly true but thinking ...

An occasional series featuring buildings and places I like and painted by Peter Topping. The Barn, 2017 I am guessing we all have our...

Now I never tire of writing about Well Hall and in particular during the mid 19th century. This will always be one of those fascinating...

Now, as a rule I don’t object to change and even I could see the logic of building a new railway station yards from the old one and calling...

I doubt that Auntie Edith would ever have thought that her picture postcard sent from Looe in Cornwall in July 1933 would be the subject of ...

Now I know there will be lots of people who know the story of Well Hall Pleasaunce, and the checkered history of the Tudor Barn which was on...