Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Friday, 21 August 2015
Plotting the bombs that fell on New Cross
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Now I have been watching eight short films about London, and Manchester during the Blitz with a link to a fascinating interactive map fr...
Thursday, 20 August 2015
Miss Wilton’s private garden, ............. the story of the village green
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Dating photographs can be tricky. If you are lucky a postcard will have the date it was sent stamped on the back, although this is still ...
Back in Nunhead Cemetery ...............
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Now I said I would be back with more pictures of Nunhead Cemetery, and because I have already about the place I shall just let the pictur...
Walking down Kender Street looking for the cocoa works and finding a lost cinema
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It will be something well over half a century since I last walked down Kender Street and even now it’s the smell of cocoa which is the firs...
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Drinking in the Bowling Green
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There will be no one left who remembers drinking in the old Bowling Green Hotel. Nor for that matter anyone who could tell me about ho...
Home Thoughts of Well Hall from a distance .......... nu 1
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Now I am not one to get over homesick but this is the time of year I left Well Hall for Manchester. In the intervening 45 years I have...
The Dark End of the Street 1967 .............. songs you never forget
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I can’t remember listening to The Dark End of the Street when it was released in 1967 and it was only years later that I came across it....
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