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Don’t Fancy Coming Out? Cruise ships speaker extraordinaire Ed Glinert can host a huge selection of Zoom tours on Manchester or national history for your group
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 Continue reading
Cottonopolis
Next tour: no dates yet. Meet: Outside the HOME arts centre, time tbc. Booking: *** Cotton. It grows in Egypt, India, Iraq and the southern states of the US. It was shipped to the North-West in vast quantities and spun … Continue reading
Manchester: City of Science
A Manchester University-based scientist has just won the Nobel Prize for physics. By an amazing coincidence, this year’s Manchester Science Festival is imminent, and NMW will be running a programme of science-themed walks at the end of October in conjunction with the Festival, such as the aptly named “Mad Inventors of Manchester”, and others devoted to the story of John Dalton and Alan Turing.
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Police Latest
So, R.I.P. Robert Mark, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, doyen of TV road safety adverts and 1940s Manchester copper. Mark features on our “Gangland Manchester” walk (next outing Thu 14 Oct) when we stop outside Bootle Street nick and hear how as a simple PC the man who later became Britain’s most powerful cop had to tackle members of the notorious political gang Continue reading
At a Glance: Walks A-Z
See at a glance when our most popular walks are taking place.
But please check the website homepage and calendar before heading off for a tour.
Here’s a sample: “The 7 Wonders of Manchester”, Fri 6 Nov, 1pm, from St Ann’s Church.
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The Sinister Spies & Spooks Preparations That Have Been Taking Place for the Tory Party Conference in Manchester!
While you dodge the security ring of steel around Peter Street and join the protests against the conference – or may be you’re attending the fringe events enthusiastically! – just muse over the bizarre secret service preparations that were taking place inside the Midland Hotel, where the popular Tory Cabinet are staying. A couple of months ago, innocent looking guests… Continue reading
Slavery Tour, 17 October, to mark the 75th Anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, Oct 1945-Oct 2020
The 75th anniversary is approaching of the 5th Pan-African Congress, one of the most momentous events in Manchester, and indeed African, history. The congress, which was held from the 15th to the 21st of October 1945, saw nationalist leaders aiming for independence within that continent make their final push to break off the colonial chains of the British Empire. Continue reading
SORRY FOLKS, NO UNDERGROUND WHILE AIR-RAID SHELTER UNDERGOES REPAIRS
Very sorry to announce that from today, Tuesday 25 February, we will not be able to carry out any Underground Manchester tours for the time being.
This is owing to renovations being carried out down below. Everyone who has booked will of course be refunded as soon as possible.
We will make an announcement as soon as the space reopens.
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Our Next Public Tours: Walks and Zoom
Our Next Public Tours
• Fri 16 Oct, ZOOM, Manchester Town Hall, 2pm, on-line.
• Fri 16 Oct, ZOOM, Underground Manchester, 5pm, on-line.
• Sat 17 Oct WALK, Slavery and Manchester, 2.30pm, Victoria Station wallmap.
• Sun 18 Oct, WALK, The Wonders of Worsley, 12.30pm, Worsley Village Library.
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OBITUARY: RICHARD PANKHURST
News comes in of the death of Richard Pankhurst, son of Sylvia, arguably Manchester’s greatest ever citizen, who has passed away aged 89 in Ethiopia and might well be afforded a state funeral.
Here’s the piece I’ve written for the Manchester Evening News.
Richard Pankhurst, the only son of Sylvia Pankhurst, the suffragette leader who was one of Manchester’s greatest ever figures, has died aged 89 at his home in Ethiopia…
Calls have gone out to grant the late academic and political agitator a state funeral in the east African country.
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