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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

Memory Bank Festival – Ali Ronan on the Garden Village

This entry was tagged Local History Group Talks and posted on November 13, 2017 by John McCrory

Ted Morgan @ Burnage Library

This entry was tagged Festival Heritage Memory Bank Poetry Talks and posted on November 6, 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 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 ...

This entry was tagged History Local History Group Memory Bank Talks and posted on October 31, 2017 by John McCrory

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

This entry was tagged Cinema Local History Group Memory Bank Talks and posted on October 6, 2017 by John McCrory

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 ...

This entry was tagged History Local History Group Memory Bank Talks and posted on June 27, 2017 by John McCrory

Join us on 27th June as local historian Tony Longshaw gives a free talk on the Blue Plaques of Manchester. All are welcome!

The Blue Plaques of Manchester – Talk by Tony Longshaw

This entry was tagged Local History Group Memory Bank Talks and posted on June 26, 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

Eddie Johnson – Railways and People, 2:00- 07th March

This entry was tagged Local History Group Memory Bank Talks and posted on March 6, 2017 by John McCrory