Andrew Simpson

Stories, people and events

Wednesday, 21 April 2021

An ex-Police Station and a gunsmiths ……….. Cheadle Hulme

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Now,  Andy didn’t elaborate on the connection, and so I will leave that to the imagination and perhaps the curiosity of a reader to dive int...

Cornflakes Pigs and a Vulture called Squashy ………… tales of Chorlton by two local lads

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Now  I have spent the last decade and a bit writing about Chorlton-cum-Hardy which has been home for 45 years, and during that time I hav...
Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 9 Town Hall Lane

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Now this is Town Hall Lane and looking at it you half expect that it would once have gone somewhere but was long ago doomed to become a dea...

Glass, reflections ....... and the new build at the MRI ……..

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It’s the picture we all take at sometime ….. that mix of glass and reflected buildings, which in this case is the new corridor in the sky. I...
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Monday, 19 April 2021

Suppose they built a railway and people forgot about it

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Now it’s the station everyone gets wrong. And I suppose I know why for today all that remains is a bit of the platform on the Fallowfie...
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Sunday, 18 April 2021

A Hardy & Padmore of Worcester Lucy Box in Castlefield ……. It doesn't get more exciting than this!

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N ow yesterday afternoon Andy came across this Lucy Box in Castlefield. It was an event that couldn’t be bettered leading him to say “ It do...

More stories from an industrial landscape

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I suppose I am on a roll and have slid into a series of stories about that industrial landscape many of us grew up with .* In my cas...
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