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Next tour: Wed 21 October 2020, 11.30am. Meet: Shudehill Metrolink stop Booking: Hear ye, hear ye, book here with ye eventbrite. The first settled community in Manchester was based in what is now Castlefield where the Romans built the first … Continue reading →

  We will take you around the main sights of the city: from Chinatown and the Town Hall to the Art Gallery, Free Trade Hall and John Ryland’s Library. This is the perfect wander around the capital of the North.

Next tour: Wed 27 September 2017. Meet: Outside the Press Club, Queen Street, off Deansgate, 1.30pm. Manchester was once a great press city. The Northern editions of all the dailies were produced locally, and here was based the greatest of … Continue reading →

SS GB Manchester – Hitler’s Plans for the City. Next walking tour: Sunday 1 September 2024. (Anniversary of outbreak of WW2)  Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 1pm. Booking: Please press here to book. The second world war began in September 1939 but … Continue reading →

Next FREE walking tour: Thursday 13 April 2023, 2.30 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. A remarkable tour of concealed city sites you always wanted to see, the history lovingly explored and explained. … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street, time tbc. To book a private tour: Please contact New Manchester Walks. As the mediaeval town grew into the world’s first industrial city, the fields and market gardens standing only … Continue reading →

Next tour: No more dates until that slag – he knows who he is – is released from the slammer. Okay, Sat 10 November 2018. Meet at… the nick on Newton Street by 12 noon. Booking: Book here with eventbrite or we’ll send … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: outside Oxford Road station, time tbc. 1901-10: Britain was at its height as an imperial and commercial power, and Manchester was its industrial capital, a city buzzing with cotton trading and machine-making, lined with … Continue reading →

Next tour: 4th of July surprisingly.  Meet: tbc. Booking: Just turn up y’all and pay the dude. “The King said he’s gonna put a tax on tea/That’s why y’all Americans drink coffee.” Which king? And what’s the link between him, … Continue reading →

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