An investigation into the early life of the World Cycle Road Racing Champion, Tom Simpson. The concern is that the culture of his Co. Durham childhood home, Haswell, has been largely ignored in previous studies of his life. Images are taken largely from Tom's presence at the 1958 Empire Games and present-day Haswell.The Empire Games images were taken by the locally-based Ron Good whose documentation of cycle racing for over 40 years is largely undervalued and unknown. This particular file was bequeathed to myself prior to his untimely death.