Andrew Simpson
Stories, people and events
Monday, 12 February 2018
Piccadilly Gardens .... the easy target
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Now if there is anything I have learnt from the last six and bit years of doing the blog is that Piccadilly Gardens is an easy target. ...
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The Lost Red Cross Hospitals of Whalley Range
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Patients and Red Cross VADs in a hospital in France There were at least five of them ranging from private homes given over to the needs...
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The Clayton Hall stories ....... no 2 “the gem in the east”
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Now if you ever plan to motor east, travel my way on the route that’s the best ...... all the way from Piccadilly to Clayton. The Hall ...
Sunday, 11 February 2018
The Clayton Hall stories ...... no. 1 the kitchen range
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I last went to Clayton Hall sometime in the 1970s when were living in Ashton Under-Lyne and depending on the bus we took from Manchester wo...
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Saturday, 10 February 2018
Welcome home Lois
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Now the blog rarely does personal messages, but as my friend Lois prepares for a night at the Apollo with the Mavericks I just thought I wo...
The ghost sign waiting to be remembered
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Now I don’t remember Lennards but someone will. They may have closed before I arrived in the city in 1969 or more likely I just never n...
Friday, 9 February 2018
A National Day for British Home Children
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Now the news is just filtering through over here of the vote in the Canadian House of Commons to set a side a National Day in September to ...
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