Monday 30 January 2012
Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...
Andrew Simpson: Penny Readings, a Reading Room, and two libraries,...: In the age of the internet who would want to go to a library? For a start you have to go there, and mix with a lot of strangers who are al...
Thursday 12 January 2012
Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...
Andrew Simpson: Chorlton’s Lych Gate .......... a collaboration be...: Yesterday I announced the collaboration between Peter Topping the artist and me the writer. We decided to tell the stories behind some of h...
Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting
Andrew Simpson: Horse & Jockey stories and a painting: I doubt that any of the twelve men who assembled in the Horse & Jockey in early May of 1847 had any doubt about who was guilty of the murde...
Saturday 7 January 2012
Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history
Andrew Simpson: The Royal Oak .... the painting and its history: Now the collaboration between local artist Peter Topping and me is well under way. He paints pictures of Chorlton and I tell the story behi...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)