Andrew Simpson: The changing face of Beech Road

Andrew Simpson: The changing face of Beech Road: More by luck than good judgement I landed up on Beech Road in the winter of 1976. Of course back then it was a pretty ordinary collection o...

Andrew Simpson: A view of a new Chorlton

Andrew Simpson: A view of a new Chorlton: Now local artist Peter Topping and I have been collaborating successfully for some time. He as you know paints pictures of Chorlton and I ...

Andrew Simpson: When this was a fish pond

Andrew Simpson: When this was a fish pond: This was the site of Blomley’s fish pond, which stretched from the corner of Acres Road up to what is now Chequers and was big enough to ha...

Andrew Simpson: A new painting and a discovery

Andrew Simpson: A new painting and a discovery: I have often wondered what the proud owners of numbers 2- 18 Wilbraham Road would have made of what happened to their homes sometime around ...

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...

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...