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It was a pleasure to welcome back Tony Longshaw, with his talk last time on the rivers and streams of south Manchester living long in the memory. Today’s topic was a virtual tour of Manchester’s blue plaques, illustrated by photographs taken by his son thirty years ago (themselves now an […]
Tony Longshaw at Burnage Library – Talk on the Blue ...
You might have never noticed the steel shutter on the front of Burnage Library before but there’s no way you’re going to now. Burnage has a brand new artwork – a beautiful design by artist Nick Hamilton which celebrates our Community Powered Library and the richness of the imagination the […]
There’s Art at the Heart of Burnage
One rainy Friday, yesterday in fact, a group of volunteers gathered together at the Library to make radio magic. In a stimulating, educational, cheeky, and really enjoyable day, Phil, Calum and Annie from All FM (96.9) patiently taught us all about the various elements required to make good radio; they […]
Burnage Library Volunteers and the art of radio broadcasting with ...
Tom Reidy writes: If you are interested in Computer Science/ICT, We at Burnage Library, Burnage, Manchester, are still running our successful Code Club for nine to eleven years old. Our Code Club is now in its third year, and we cover programming (Scratch & Python), basic web design, algorithms, and […]
Code Club @ Burnage Library
On Tuesday 26th April 2017 I enjoyed discussing the book written by Alan Johnson called This Boy with other members of the book club. It is an interesting autobiography of Alan’s early years growing up in London in the early fifties, sixties and seventies. It was enjoyable to debate the […]
Book Club
What is Burnage memory Bank? Burnage Memory Bank is a two year project celebrating the stories and experiences of Burnage people. The project is based at Burnage Library but will be popping up all over Burnage. We’d love to hear from you if you: Have memories, photographs, or stories of […]
Burnage Memory Bank
We’ve planned a number of activities for International Women’s Week here at Burnage Library, more details of which can be read on this page here. Our Turning the Page pop up festival for women features a number of free activities, which must be booked via Eventbrite, and runs from Friday 4th […]
Turning the Page – Activities for International Women’s Week
It was a great Thursday morning in the library today. First we had a visit from two friendly carpenters, who very efficiently built some very smart cupboards in our meeting room. Looking good and they will be so useful. Thank you Southway. They were following by a concerned Grandma. A […]
A Thursday Morning in the Library…
A Hectic Digital Week The last week was a very busy week for our Digital team. Laura and CodeClub volunteer and STEMNet Ambassador Tom ran the first of our CodeClub sessions. CodeClub is a monthly programming club for 9-11 year old children (Laura blogged about it here). I ran a […]