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Yearly Archives: 2017

This afternoon we have a special screening of films from the North West Film Archives’s collection, showing films from both Burnage and Manchester from 1910 to the 1970s. The showing is free and all are welcome to attend! All material shown courtesy of the North West Film Archive at Manchester […]

Memory Bank Festival

This entry was tagged Film Memory Bank Upcoming Event and posted on November 28, 2017 by John McCrory

Following on from his popular presentation on the Burnage National School, St. Margaret’s Church archivist John Pollard kindly offered us a guided tour of the Church and grounds as part of our Memory Bank Festival. Gathering under the lynch gate on a bleak November afternoon, spirits were not dampened as […]

Memory Bank Festival – Tour of St. Margaret’s Church

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage Festival Heritage St. Margaret's Church Talks Walks and posted on November 23, 2017 by John McCrory

We were treated to two sessions with historian Ali Ronan, both at the library and ‘on tour’ at the Garden Village, as part of this month’s Burnage Memory Bank festival. A packed house greeted Ali at the library on Tuesday 14th, to listen to her research on the radical personalities […]

Memory Bank Festival – Ali Ronan and the Garden Village

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage History Local History Local History Group Memory Bank Walks and posted on November 23, 2017 by John McCrory

Join us this Thursday afternoon as we are given a guided tour of St. Margaret’s Church by its archivist, John Pollard. John will also be showing us a selection of archival documents from the church, and talking us through his exhibit of the congregation’s dead from 1917 in WW1. The […]

Memory Bank Festival – Tour of St. Margaret’s Church with ...

This entry was tagged Memory Bank St. Margaret's Church Upcoming Event and posted on November 21, 2017 by John McCrory

You probably know about Green Screen technology – it’s the way films like Star Wars get Jedi Knights slogging it out on an alien planet, when they’re actually in a studio in Shepperton. But we thought we’d bring it home to Burnage and invite families in to have their […]

Putting people in the Picture in Burnage

This entry was tagged Families Local History Memory Bank photography and posted on November 21, 2017 by Amanda Wait

Memory Bank Festival – Walk around Garden Village

This entry was tagged Local History Group Walks and posted on November 17, 2017 by John McCrory

Local musician Claire Mooney performs at Burnage Library’s 4th birthday party:

Claire Mooney – Burnage Library: Heart of the Community!

This entry was tagged Claire Mooney Music and posted on November 14, 2017 by John McCrory

Memory Bank Festival – Ali Ronan on the Garden Village

This entry was tagged Local History Group Talks and posted on November 13, 2017 by John McCrory

It was our pleasure on Tuesday afternoon to host Ted Morgan, a locally born poet, back to his old haunt. Indeed, Ted used to play on the waste ground between Burnage Lane and Shawbrook Road, and was quite upset when the first library building here destroyed a favourite playground! He […]

Memory Bank Festival – Ted Morgan’s visit to Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Festival Local History Group Local People Poetry and posted on November 9, 2017 by John McCrory

Ted Morgan @ Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Festival Heritage Memory Bank Poetry Talks and posted on November 6, 2017 by John McCrory