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 […]
Memory Bank
This afternoon we have a special screening of films from the North West Film Archives’s collection, showing films from both Burnage and Manchester from 1910 to the 1970s. The showing is free and all are welcome to attend! All material shown courtesy of the North West Film Archive at Manchester […]
Memory Bank Festival
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
Join us this Thursday afternoon as we are given a guided tour of St. Margaret’s Church by its archivist, John Pollard. John will also be showing us a selection of archival documents from the church, and talking us through his exhibit of the congregation’s dead from 1917 in WW1. The […]
Memory Bank Festival – Tour of St. Margaret’s Church with ...
You probably know about Green Screen technology – it’s the way films like Star Wars get Jedi Knights slogging it out on an alien planet, when they’re actually in a studio in Shepperton. But we thought we’d bring it home to Burnage and invite families in to have their […]
Putting people in the Picture in Burnage
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 ...
On Tuesday we were delighted to hand over the floor to Bob McDermott- one of our group’s members- who talked us through his memories of cinema and film in Manchester. His story began at the very beginning, with his father, a projectionist, hastily ending a showing to attend Bob’s birth- […]
Local History Group – Cinema Memories in Manchester
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 […]