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Coronation Street celebrates 60 glorious years on Wednesday the 9th of December and we are marking the occasion with a new tour: “Classic Corrie Coach Tour on Zoom”.

So whether you live in Windsor, Winnipeg, Wooka Wooka or Weatherfield, you can join legendary tour guide Ed Glinert, one of the very few official Manchester tour guides who has taken groups down the cobbles, on a rip-roaring, mind-blowing, eye-opening trail through the great stories from Coronation Street’s golden days at the places where they were filmed. Continue reading →

Too cold to go on a guided tour? Then book Ed Glinert, one of the country’s best-informed and most entertaining and speakers. Glinert can talk on all things Manchester, Liverpool and London, as well as hundreds of fascinating topics. For instance this is what Glinert will be speaking on over the next few months on cruise ships.

The Story of Motown.
American Presidents in Trouble.
The Making of the film Casablanca.
The History of Hangings.
Spies & Spooks: The History of British Espionage. Continue reading →

Urgent today, Sat 25 November: NO TOURS, Ed Glinert croaking with bad throat.
Today’s Marx & Engels and Secret History moved to same time next Saturday, 2 December.
Marx & Engels: 11am from Engels statue.
Secret History: 2.30pm from outside the Mercure Hotel.
Please use the tickets you already have!
Best wishes
Ed Continue reading →

Change of plan for 9 December – and not because we’ve been ripped-off by Phelan and Vinnie. We will be starting this year’s annual commemoration of Britain’s most famous TV street, celebrating its 56th birthday this day, at Ashton-under-Lyne tram stop (at 1.30pm). We can then do a bit of walking and a bit of tramming to visit some key Corrie sites:
* Richard Hillman’s watery grave
* Weatherfield Registry Office
* Corrie’s birthplace
* Granadaland
* Cropper Corner
* Fiz’s Restaurant
* The tour is hosted by Ed Glinert who led the campaign to get the old Granada set re-opened, who has guided on the new set in Trafford Park (but not on this occasion, alas) and who hosts events with the stars (with Kemptville Travel). Continue reading →

Missing walking the Manchester streets hearing the history of the world’s greatest industrial city? While you’re inside but would rather be outside we can make you feel like you’re onside on our Zoom talk-tours, even better than the real thing, as U2 once said, covering every one of our hundred or so walks in and around Manchester.

Yes, we will be zooming all the usual tours – Ancoats, Angel Meadow, Architecture, Alan Turing, Art…and that’s just the As – as well as doing the usual walking tours on foot in person. It also offers you, the customer, a wider experience. Continue reading →

We are the official guides of Manchester, as trained by me, Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and most prolific tour guide.
These are the next eye-opening, expert, entertaining, enlightening tours at the end of November 2024.
Needless to say, these are the only such tours where you will get stories you will love to hear that nobody else will tell you.

* Saturday 30 November, 11am, The Grand Canals of Manchester, 11am, from outside Malmaison, 3 Piccadilly.
* Saturday 30 November, 2pm, On the trail of the Smiths, from the Chinese Arch, Faulkner Street. Continue reading →

With great sadness we join the world mourning the death of one of the greatest sportsmen in history, Sir Bobby Charlton. There will be countless articles and obituaries over the next few weeks. Here are extracts from Ed Glinert’s forthcoming “111 Places Manchester United Fans Shouldn’t Miss”. Continue reading →

No Elizabeth Gaskell today, alas. Ed Glinert still not 100 per cent
Very sorry about this, folks, but I’m not cured, so I won’t be able to do “Elizabeth Gaskell” today.
Those of you who came on the Pankhursts on Sunday will remember that I was struggling.
Many apologies. I’m close to recovering.
All the best
Ed Continue reading →