Burnage Library Activity and Information Hub holds a weekly two hour Digital Café for older people who are keen to develop their digital skills and boost their confidence. It’s an informal and friendly drop-in session including learners with varied needs, skill levels and frequency of attendance. Learners usually bring their […]
Digital
This post was written by Alyn Hilsden, who runs our digital drop in sessions from 10:30 – 12:30 each Monday morning during term time. For the last six weeks, I have been running a weekly IT drop-in session at Burnage library. This has been a thoroughly enjoyable experience and a […]
Reflections on running an IT drop-in
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
We spent this afternoon immersed in old maps, exploring the magnificent resource provided by the National Library of Scotland. While we’ve used this site before, the recent extension of their 25 inch digital maps to include the Manchester area provided a little needed invitation to revisit the material. At this scale postboxes are […]
Digital Historic Maps Session
We’ve created a dedicated site for the Burnage Memory Bank programme, a space where people’s recollections, stories, photographs, sounds and videos can all be shared: http://www.burnageactivityhub.org.uk/memorybank It’s always being updated, but at the minute we have photographs from the Duchess of York hospital, pictures showing the allotments on Cringle Fields during the Second […]
Burnage Memory Bank Website
Many thanks to Glenis from our local history group for guiding us through today’s session, giving us a tremendous introduction into searching for your family’s history. Beginning with an overview of the materials held at record offices and libraries, we then looked online at the free resources available for accessing birth, marriages and death records. Glenis […]
Finding your Ancestors
Join us on Tuesday afternoon in the library for an introductory session on searching for your family history. We’ll look at the various sites, give an overview of the techniques used, and go through some examples showing what’s possible!
Find Your Ancestors – Burnage Memory Bank
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?
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 […]