Burnage Heritage

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

Burnage Memory Bank Festival

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage Events Festival History Learning Local People Memory Bank Talks Walks and posted on November 6, 2017 by John McCrory

We were taken back to the age of steam this afternoon, with Eddie Johnson talking us through a huge number his historic photographs of the railways. The focus was less on the great locomotives that powered their way across the country than the people who worked on, or whose lives […]

Railways and People – Eddie Johnson at Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage History Learning Local History Group Memory Bank Railways Talks and posted on March 7, 2017 by John McCrory

A full house greeted our guest speaker Chris Makepeace this afternoon, and they were rewarded with a wonderful talk about the value of photographs in understanding our history. Illustrated with a reel full of seldom seen images, we were given advice on examining and dating photographs. What buildings were in the background- […]

Chris Makepeace at Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage History Learning Memory Bank photography Talks and posted on February 7, 2017 by John McCrory

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

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

This entry was tagged Burnage Heritage Events Learning Library Local People People's Health Trust and posted on March 12, 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

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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