Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Friday, 7 September 2012
Central Station, the one I just missed
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Central Station was another I just missed. It closed in the May of 1969, just a few months before I arrived. And in the way t...
Thursday, 6 September 2012
Chorlton-cum-Hardy The Story at Albany Road, tomorrow
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It’s the story of where we live, from the 16th century to now, spread over an exhibition site on the old Cosgrave Hall site on Albany Road....
On the old road in 1950
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This week it is more of the old road,* which snaked from Hardy Lane down past the Brook, round by the parish church and out past the gre...
Victoria Station much knocked about but still doing the business since 1844
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I don’t think Victoria Station has been best served by what has happened to it over the last few years. But then it was always a place...
Wednesday, 5 September 2012
Oxford Road Station, places I like
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Well yes, it looks like another series of stories and all because I fell across some old pictures of the new Piccadilly Railway Station...
Looking out of Chorlton, the old road in 1930
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I am back on the old road for the last picture in the series, and we are on the border of the township.* Today this means nothing but ...
Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Places I like, ....... Piccadilly Railway Station
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I first arrived in Piccadilly Railway Station on a warm September day in 1969 thinking I would be here in Manchester for just three year...
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