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8th Didsbury Guides - 1961-2.jpg
Photograph showing Guide company outside St. Nicholas around 1961/2. Maria Chambers is in uniform, her sister Dorothy was a helper.
Acacia Days
Carole describes her time at the Acacias school in Burnage, detailing her journeys there, memories of the old house in which lessons were taken, school dinners, teachers and old friends.
Allotments on Cringle Fields
Two images showing the allotments sited at the bottom of Cringle Fields, alongside Avon Road, during the second world war.
Barbara - Working at a Furriers.pdf
Barbara's description of her time working at a furriers in central Manchester.
Be-Ro Home Recipe book
This is my little treasure – my Be-Ro Home Recipe Book. The most used page in the book was the grubby, grease splashed Page 51. The reason for this was because we didn’t have enough money for tools like electric hand mixers, and it was the good old…
Bevan Taylor - Scouting Trip and Sheepdogs
Photograph of Geoffrey Partington, Alan Cooper, Henry Wright and Bevan Taylor at Borthwen, Anglesey, 1941.
In embedded recording Bevan Taylor describes how a local farmer selected which sheepdog pup to keep.
In embedded recording Bevan Taylor describes how a local farmer selected which sheepdog pup to keep.
Bevan Taylor - The Bombing of Burnage High School and Leaving Education.
Bevan Taylor tells us about the wartime bombing of Burnage High School and how this prompted him to leave.
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Burnage Garden Society - Annual General Meeting - 1942
The minutes from the Burnage Garden Society's Annual General Meeting, held in the clubroom of the Victoria Inn, Burnage Lane, 8th March 1942.
Describes the £50 War Loan taken out by the Society and includes an account of the address given by…
Describes the £50 War Loan taken out by the Society and includes an account of the address given by…