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Industry
Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce goods on a scale never before seen. And what goods! Cotton clothes exported to west …
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Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards (on Hallowe’en)
Next walking tour: Tuesday 31 October 2024 (Hallowe’en), 5.30 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Enter, if you dare, a nether world of murder, assassination, hanging, homicide, regicide, talking corpses and some really nasty stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as well as the …
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Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess
Next event is a FREE talk: Thursday 8 June 2023, 7pm. Meet: inside Altrincham Library. Booking: Please book with Trafford Libraries. Come and drink in a cocktail of excess and revelry drunk by those overdosing on their own egos and out to lunch in their own lifetimes on this irreverent, Rabelasian, rabble-rousing tour. Here are …
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William Shakespeare’s Manchester
Next tour: Fri 26 October 2018. Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, 2.30pm. Booking: Soon with eventbrite. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive with mementos to the Bard and dedications to his protagonists. We’ve found seven obvious locations (just …
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