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Rusholme

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Hardy’s Well pub, corner Dickenson Road/Wilmslow Road

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Nostalgia for Old Manchester

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Secret History of Manchester

Next tour: Saturday the 9th of November 2024, 2pm. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has … Continue reading

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Victorian Diseases

Next tour: No dates until the guide recovers from typhus fever. Private Booking: Please contact us from your convalescent home. *** Mill fever, typhus, typhoid, cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever … and something even worse from drinking water with tadpoles and … Continue reading

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More walks for June – MANCHESTER FOOTBALL CAPITAL

Celebrate the 10th UNICEF Soccer Aid match at Old Trafford. Steve is taking a walk in central Manchester on the history of football – where it all began! We start outside the Malmaison Hotel at 11:30 am – to hear stories about the beautiful game, suitable for all ages – ending at the NationalFootballMuseum at 1pm with time to visit the exhibitions.

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More walks for July – WALK WITH THE HEROES

Move through the First World War on the streets of the city with the heroes of Manchester.
Replay their battles, their poetry, their suffering, and capture a 100 years on the effect of this apocalypse on the men and women who were sent to fight.
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St Ann’s Church

For now we feature St Ann’s on tours such as: * Jewish Manchester. * The Great Art Treasures of Manchester. * Manchester’s Religious Shrines. *** Wealthy worshippers in the 18th century, unhappy with the High Church nature of the services … Continue reading

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Scottish Manchester

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Greek Manchester

Next tour: No new dates until the Euro crisis is over. They invented architecture, politics, philosophy, science and culture. But apart from that, what did the Greeks ever do for Manchester?   Greek Manchester, not Greece

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Gorton

Next tours: Sun 12 Feb 2012, Sun 20 May 2012. Meet: Gorton Monastery (in the cafe), 11.30am. Cost: £7.50 (which mostly goes to the Monastery).   Gorton was once the workshop of the world. Here the first locomotives taking trains across … Continue reading

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