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Mr Halle’s Band
Next public tour: No dates set yet. Private tours: We recently took a group of choristers from the Home Counties on this walk – with great success. To follow in their footsteps, please contact New Manchester Walks. The Halle is … Continue reading
Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years
Official Manchester Music Tours The tours have been organised by Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and long-time music writer, co-author of Fodor’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Traveller books, and launch production editor for Mojo. Next tour: Saturday 26 October 2024. Meet: … Continue reading
Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester
Public tour No dates yet. Meet: outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Private tours We have been inundated with requests. It’s been so enjoyable taking good folk from San Francisco, London and all places in between on a custom-made … Continue reading
The Beatles’ Manchester
For now, we’re not doing this one as we now do a Beatles’ Liverpool tour, natch.
The World’s First Railways
Next tour: Dates to be set. Meet: tbc. Booking: Please have your tickets ready for the inspector. To book privately (ideal for railway enthusiasts): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Some time around 600 BC a railway called the rutway was built in ancient … Continue reading
Castlefield
Next tours: Wed 24 Aug.
Meet: outside Deansgate railway station, 11am. Continue reading
Ancoats
Next free walking tour: Saturday 2 November 2024. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Welcome to Ancoats, the cradle of the industrial revolution, a factory hoot from Manchester city centre, … Continue reading
Victorian Manchester
Next tours: No dates yet. Ideal for school groups (A Level). Part 1: “The Glories”. Part 2: “The Horrors”. Victorian Manchester, The Glories: Gothic grandeur, democracy, free trade, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, education, full employment, war over. Victorian Manchester, The Horrors: Cholera, chimneys, tripe, … Continue reading
Manchester Tourist Trail
The next tours are FREE Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10.45am. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. What can we tell you? New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts … Continue reading
Royal Manchester – Aethelred Unready, Victoria Not Amused
Next walk: no dates yet. Queen Elizabeth II may well have opened Metrolink in 1992 but it wasn’t always so easy to get a royal to go to Manchester. The town simply wasn’t important enough for such luminaries as William … Continue reading
