Freelance sessional leader: Burnage History Champions Background: Burnage History Champions is a lively group of around 25 people from the local area who have been meeting regularly over the last 5 years to learn, explore and share their love of local and family history. The group runs regular (fortnightly) Tuesday […]
History
We were delighted to welcome Dr. Charlotte Wildman from Manchester University to Burnage Library on Tuesday for the first of her sessions, officially beginning our Heritage Lottery Funded programme, ‘Burnage: A Place Called Home’. What are our perceptions of Manchester and the North of England in the 1920s and 1930s? […]
Charlotte Wildman at Burnage Library
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
We welcomed back Tony Longshaw this afternoon to complete some unfinished business, finishing our virtual tour of the commemorative plaques located around Manchester. Tony was an authoritative guide, talking us through all manner of sights, locations and historical figures, all while detailing the processes behind the plaques’ selection, manufacture and […]
Tony Longshaw at Burnage Library – The Blue, Black and ...
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 ...
Over the last few months, many of our group members have brought in items belonging to close family members from both the world wars. It made sense to devote a session to these items, bringing them to wider audience. More importantly perhaps, it encouraged individuals to present to the group as a […]
Local History Group – Wartime Items
This afternoon we were joined by John Pollard, archivist at St. Margaret’s church on Burnage Lane, for a session focusing on the St. Margaret’s national school. John began with a presentation covering the history of the school until its closure in the mid 1930s, starting by giving us some background context to Burnage […]
St. Margaret’s National School Archives
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
From the workhouse of the Chorlton Union to the largest teaching hospital in Europe, this afternoon we charted the fascinating development of Withington Hospital on Nell Lane. Beginning with a presentation on the workhouse, we looked at the utilitarian principles leading to their creation and the pioneering ‘pavillions’ designed by Thomas Worthington, […]