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Next tour: Friday 28 June 2024. Meet: Outside the Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Behind the chaotic, cardamom-coated world of the Curry Mile lie the remains of a luxurious, tree-lined estate … Continue reading →

Next tour: Thursday 19 September 2024. Meet: Salford Quays Metrolink stop, 2pm.  Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Huge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, as … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap. “Dirty old town,” sang the man. He was relaxing in between shows at Hyndman Hall on Liverpool Street, looked out of the window at the old gas works and was suitably inspired … Continue reading →

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Next walking tour: Sat 1 June 2024, 2pm. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, modish Manchester, funky but chic Manchester. It’s the Northern Quarter. A land … Continue reading →

Next walking tour: SOON!, 12 noon. Meet: Outside Knutsford Sessions Courthouse, Toft Road, near Knutsford Station. (Hopefully the train will be on time!) Booking: This is a sumptuous tour laced with character and charisma, for Knutsford is the classiest village … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside The Eighth Day, 111 Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, time tbc. It’s an amazing story. Read on and marvel at the pics below. Hulme became the setting for one of the most extraordinary social engineering-cum-architectural projects … Continue reading →

Next tour: Thursday 5 July. Start: Manchester Museum reception, off Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 11.30am. Ends: The newly-reopened Gaskell House. It’s the biggest centre of learning in Europe – colleges and universities, ivy-clad quads, red-brick labs, dreaming spires, and thousands of students populating … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside Didsbury Village Metrolink stop. Booking: Didsbury is the most desirable suburb in Manchester, free of the legacy of grimy industry, unsympathetic town planning and the detritus of urban life. Many of the grand villas … Continue reading →

Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Greek Church, 400 Bury New Road, M7 4EY. Here’s a new one. “The Long Road to Strangeways: From The Cliff to the Clink”. We start in quaint, olde-worlde Salford, where period lampposts, rambling villas … Continue reading →