Andrew Simpson

This is a vesta case which was used for carrying matches. They date from the 1830s and became particularly popular at the end of the 19...

Wood Lawn I am back with the story of the Voluntary Red Cross Hospitals during the Great War. In 1917 the Wesleyan College on Wilmslo...

Woodlawn circa 1915 I am back again at Woodlawn which was a Red Cross hospital in Didsbury during the Great War.* I first came acros...

Woodlawn was one of those very big houses that Didsbury used to excel at. It stood on what was Fielden Park and is now Mersey Road whic...

Now of all the Red Cross Hospitals I have written about I do seem to keep coming back to Woodlawn. It had been a private house which wa...

Now it is fitting that I should be returning to the story of the Woodlawn Red Cross Hospital in Didsbury in the month that we remember th...