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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
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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).
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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.
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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”.
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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
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These are just some of the tours we can offer on Zoom:

Alan Turing • Ancoats • Architecture of Manchester • Chetham’s & the Cathedral • Classic Corrie locations • Hacienda Years Music • Jack the Ripper • L. S. Lowry • Manchester Town Hall • Marx & Engels • Midland Hotel • Pre-Raphaelites • Royal Scandal Through the Ages • Secrets of MI5 • Secrets of MI6 • Underground Manchester…and many many more
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