Andrew Simpson

This clock is a feature of the old St. Mary’s Hospital building on Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, Manchester.  This institution has its o...

Now I recently used that well known phrase “you can take the boy out of Peckham but you can’t take Peckham out of the boy.” It was duri...

In the midst of the turmoil of the war in Gaza with the wait for a cease fire and the release of some at least of the Hostages, I have come ...

Strictly speaking we hadn’t got lost.  And even if we had there is something about wandering the back streets of Sorrento on a hot Augu...

Rome, an alley off  the Trevi Fountain, 2011 Black and white movies, Italy in the 50s, and a Neapolitan song  Yesterday evening we...

Some of us will in the course of family research come across the relative who was living on the streets, which will be as shocking as that ...

I have never lost my fascination for Rome. I have friends who long ago fell in love with Venice, others who keep going back to Floren...