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What is the Burnbanks project about?
Oral History
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What is the Burnbanks project about?
Location: Cumbria
A model village was built at Burnbanks in the 1920s to house Manchester Corporation workers constructing the Haweswater Reservoir and Dam. In the 1930s, 315 adults and their families lived there. After the Second World War, some houses were taken down and numbers dwindled.
Today, Burnbanks has few occupants and there are plans to demolish and rebuild the surviving bungalows. The Bampton Local History Society has been awarded a Local Heritage Initiative Grant by the Countryside Agency to study the history of Burnbanks from 1920 to the present day. Completion date for the project is December 2005.
What are we doing?
The aim of the project is to collect information about life at Burnbanks and to interview people who lived, worked or visited the village. We intend to do this in various ways:- researching in archives
studying local newspapers - collecting and conserving existing photos and records
- photographing and measuring the existing site
- recording people’s memories
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