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 […]
Local History Group
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
A big thank you to our fantastic local history group members, who gave a wonderful performance at All Saints on Saturday as part of the Manchester Histories Festival. The theme of this ‘Soapbox’ event was protest and democracy, and our re-enactment of a milk strike organised just over a hundred […]
Soapbox 2018 : Manchester Histories Festival
Sacrificing the last of the long weekend’s glorious weather, our group gathered this afternoon to explore the history of Stockport- presented by group member Toni. Using photographs and articles gathered over the last few weeks, she took us on a journey around the town: covering its pubs, streets, prominent buildings […]
Local History Group – Stockport
It’s been a great year so far for our local history group, covering exciting new subjects and welcoming back familiar faces. We’ve looked at Manchester’s pubs, theatres, cafes and restaurants, and famous visitors, while the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act was marked with an exploration of Manchester’s […]
Local History Sessions in 2018
Huma Abdul Ali is a student from Levenshulme High School, and chose Burnage Library for her Work Experience week. She got stuck right in and made a great contribution to our team. We really enjoyed working with her and wish her all the best for the future. My Work Experience […]
Work Experience 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
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 […]