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Old Graveyards & Burial Grounds of Manchester
Next tour: NO DATES AS YET. Meet: tbc. Booking: Just turn up for this one! please check website a day before the tour just in case the guide has fallen into the crypt. Now where have our churches gone? St … Continue reading
Lost Manchester – The Vanished City
Next 2013 tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc. Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they gone? We will visit the site, tell the story, show the pictures. … Continue reading
Football Babylon – Best, Babes, Balls, Booze, Balotelli…
The Football History of Manchester Best, Busby, Bobby, Buzzer, Bell, Bert & Balotelli…from Salford Van Hire to Robin Van Persie, Louis Van Gaal and Ole, Ole, Ole. Running Commentary: Given that Manchester is the world’s leading football city (it is, … Continue reading
The Grand Hotels of Manchester (Beetham, St John’s, Radisson, Midland…Grand Pearl (!)
This tour: Sunday 27 March 2022 (Mother’s Day), 12noon. Meet Mercure Hotel, Piccadilly Gardens. Forget lastminute.com, please book with eventbrite. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. End with tea at the Radisson or Midland or Great John Street…you choose! This … Continue reading
Russiaи Maиchester – Behiиd the Iroиic Curtaiи
Next tour: Nyet dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc. Stravinsky conducted in Manchester; Joe Sunlight built here. Yuri Gagarin posed outside the Town Hall after walking above here (in space). There’s a myth that the Communist Manifesto was researched here, … Continue reading
Roman Manchester
Next tour: Bank Holiday Monday 27 May 2024. Meet: Deansgate Entrance, Beetham Tower, 2.30pm. What you need to know: Please bring typical Roman lunch: snails fattened on milk, peacocks’ brains and flamingos’ tongues. What you need to remember: Sic Transit Omnibus … Continue reading
Italian Manchester – Arrivederci Croma
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, time tbc. Booking: Just turn up. It’s been 150 years since Il Risorgimento brought ice-cream and Venetian vistas to Manchester. The city welcomed huge numbers of Italians in the mid-19th … Continue reading
Masterpieces of Manchester Art
Next FREE tour, The Great Art Treasures of Manchester: Tue 4 June 2024. Meet: outside St Ann’s Church. St Ann Street, 11.15 a.m. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Thoroughly-detailed and wonderfully enlightening tours of Manchester’s greatest art … Continue reading
Concrete Jungle
“Concrete Jungle”, the modern architecture tour, has been subsumed into “Le Corbusier’s Manchester” for now. Please see Walks & Tours
Baroque & Gothic Palaces of Manchester
The Baroque & Gothic Palaces tour has been subsumed into the Manchester Architecture Trial for now. Please see http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/art-architecture/the-manchester-architecture-trail/
