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Building a Community: Making Burnage a Place Called Home (Webinar Recording)
In the second of our two-part digital symposium, we welcomed specialists in housing, community and placemaking to explore the ways those moving to places like Burnage in the inter-war years were able to establish a new community for themselves.…
Building a Vision: 100 Years of Affordable Housing (Webinar Recording)
A webinar held by Burnage: A Place Called Home, which gathered key speakers to reflect on the past, present and future of affordable housing. Speakers: John Boughton, Social Historian and Founder of Municipal Dreams: The Municipal Vision Dr Martin…
Sundays in the Park
Gladys remembers a very different park, with a band playing in the band stand, while football teams from the local pubs continued their tournaments for local victory. Look at the difference between these photographs - the first is from a postcard…
Original Features: Colourful Corporation Doors!
We have featured some wonderful original features of the Burnage Corporation Houses - the ceiling rack for example.
But who remembers the doors? You could choose which colour to have your door painted, look at the blues of these doors!
What…
Memories of the Pub
Ann remembers her father getting dressed up to go to the pub on a Sunday, is this something your parents did? Do you visit the same drinking holes now?
Renold Chains Railings
Hans Renold was the inventor of the roller chain. Having found great success in smaller premises, he sought to build a larger factory and began work building in Burnage in 1906.An early champion of worker’s rights, he was one of the first employers…
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Green Burnage Spotters Guide
Download and print this double-sided guide to explore the green areas of Burnage as part of your daily exercise.
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Fields and Farms
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10 Locations ~ Curated by The Burnage: a place called home TeamBurnage: a place called home
A project by Burnage Library with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and support from Archives+Burnage: a place called home is an eighteen month celebration of the history and stories of the Manchester Corporation's housing estates built in the 1920s and 30s. Why were they built? How were they built? Who moved here? How did they transform this blank canvas into a community? We'll be running a series of Heritage Lottery Funded activities over the course of the programme exploring these questions, sharing our findings with the people of Burnage. Why not get involved too? Read more About Us