Burnage Roofing Company

Burnage is a suburb of Manchester. It is found about 4 miles outside of Manchester City Centre and the Kingsway dual carriageway passes right through it. The area is quite small, yet still plays host to just shy of 16,000 residents.

Nobody really knows where the name Burnage initially came from. It is believed that around the medieval period, a lot of brown stone walls stood in the area. They looked like ‘hedges’, which gave the name ‘brondage’, which ultimately means ‘Brown Hedge’.
Not a lot of human activity went on in Burnage at this time anyway. There was no manor, unlike some of the other areas that now form Manchester. It was just a common pasture land. This land was shared between the Manors of Withington and Heaton Norris.

Nobody quite knows how, but in 1655 Burnage became a township. The biggest landowner in the area was William Egerton, a politician, who likely owned about a third of the land. His heir ended up owning half of Burnage.

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Burnage was not really that developed at the time, and George Bernard Shaw, a famous Irish writer, said that Burnage was the most beautiful village in the Manchester Area. It was still mostly cottages, with the bulk of industry being handweaving. You can still see some of the old cottages in the area.
In the 20th Century, plans started to come to fruition to expand Burnage, which all the same time retaining that ‘garden like’ feel. The result is a ton of semi-detached buildings being built but there was also a prime focus on the development of open spaces. Even today, you can see bowling greens, tennis courts, and open gardens in the area. Fortunately, two semis are no problem when it comes to repairing roof tiles. Sometimes we even replace both roofs at the same time.

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There was an engineering works in the area, run by Hans Renold, who built Roller Chain. It was built in the early 1900s and lasted until the 1980s. Now it is flats and a retail outlet.  Burnage also played host to the first ever powered flight from London to Manchester (although, it did have to stop off in Lichfield). This was part of a Daily Mail competition, and the pilot (who was French), managed to net himself £10k at the time, which was no small figure. If you head to Paulhan Road in Burnage, you can see the area where he took off.

Burnage will continue to go through development, although will also retain that small garden village feel.