History

An article by David Reid, featured in A Burnage Miscellany 4 from Burnage Heritage, was the focal point of today’s session. Using the National Library of Scotland’s digitised 1848 Ordnance Survey map of the area, we journeyed from Didsbury Road to cross the Nico Ditch over Slade Lane, our route both following and diverging away from […]

Local History Group – A Roman Road through Burnage?

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage Digital History Local History Group and posted on June 22, 2016 by John McCrory

On Tuesday we examined a number of documents relating to Shawbrook Villa, which lies across the road from the library. Glenis, one of our group, had produced for us a list of the occupiers of the property from 1871 until 1911: A Burnage Miscellany 4 was consulted first, with a piece by Scott […]

Local History Group- Shawbrook Villa

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage History Local History Group and posted on June 9, 2016 by John McCrory

Today our Memory Bank Champions gathered for the first time at Central Library for an introductory session to kick-start our programme. Our minibus was greeted by David Govier from Central Library’s Archives who, along with Jackie Ould from the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Education Trust, gave us a guided tour of the library’s interactive digital exhibits area on the […]

Memory Bank trip to Central Library

This entry was tagged History Local History Group Manchester City Council Memory Bank Training and posted on May 14, 2016 by John McCrory

With its local roots, there’s a wealth of material about the Burnage and South Manchester area in the Guardian’s archives. These can be accessed for free by any Manchester Libraries user (on any computer) via their Online Reference Library– all you need is your library card number. After brief instruction on using the search […]

History Group – Exploring the Guardian’s Digital Archive

This entry was tagged Digital History Learning Library Local History Group Manchester Libraries and posted on February 2, 2016 by John McCrory

We would like to thank the Revd Dennis Nadin of Burnage Heritage for sending us additional copies of his ‘Burnage Miscellany’ series, along with a number of other titles. A quick glance at the pictures shows the extent of his generosity! He has also offered to donate all proceeds of any […]

A Christmas Present for Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage History and posted on December 2, 2015 by John McCrory

Today’s session was led by Stacey from Southway Housing, assisting us as part Southway’s Get Online week. It was a chance for those attending to get a sense of the enormous wealth of historical material that can now be accessed online, as well as to receive some support in using a computer and […]

Local History Group – Digital Session

This entry was tagged Digital History Local History Group Southway Housing and posted on October 13, 2015 by John McCrory

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the opening of Burnage Library, we are delighted to take a look back at the site where it stands with Revd Dennis Lloyd Nadin of Burnage Heritage (http://burnageheritage.org/). “The previous libraries I think still exist at the side of Aldi, the detached […]

Burnage Library’s Heritage

This entry was tagged 40th Anniversary Burnage Heritage History Library Local People and posted on March 12, 2014 by Vinca Power

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