Andrew Simpson

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Saturday, 25 April 2026

Your Arts Festival wants you ……

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To be more accurate you will want to be part of this year’s Chorlton Arts Festival. It runs from May 8 to May 21st encompasses all the arts ...

Lost and forgotten streets of Manchester .......... nu 6 Bootle Alley

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Now you could be forgiven for missing Bootle Alley which was always a very poor second to Bootle Street which twists up from Deansgate to M...

When we had a post office on Beech Road

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Now I am never surprised at what turns up on eBay, especially when my old friend David Harrop is involved. At Beech Road post office,...
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Walking into Eltham in 1862

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The parish church in 1860  I am back with Bradshaw in 1862  continuing  to explore one of the walks laid out in the Illustrated Handboo...
Friday, 24 April 2026

Waiting on platform 12 at Piccadilly for Royal Mail Parcels ........ 1980

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I know I shouldn’t be surprised at just how much of the city has changed over forty years. Part of that is because I just don’t think f...
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Eltham Church ......”one towards your collection”

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Now, I don’t for one minute think that when Lizzie sent this picture postcard to her auntie in Bridlington, that she ever thought it would ...

Historians of Chorlton ............. Nora Templar

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Nora Templar was a well known historian .  She wrote a series of articles about the township which were published in the St Clements pa...
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