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Your safety is important to us! New regulations? We are educational!
Your safety is important to us. We are abiding by tourist board safety recommendations regarding social distancing, so numbers are limited.
As regards the new regulations, we are very keen to do our bit to counteract coronavirus, but please note our tours are exempt as they are educational.
Indeed they are probably the most educational events taking place in and around Manchester, so if you’d like to learn about the fascinating history of this area while also gaining such much-needed exercise, please book a NewManchesterWalks tour on eventbrite or facebook.
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Mastercard Priceless Tours: The Beatles’ Liverpool & Manchester Music City
We are delighted to announce that New Manchester Walks and our Merseyside branch, New Liverpool Walks, we will be working with Mastercard’s Priceless.com outlet to run a series of exclusive Beatles’ Liverpool tours and Manchester Music tours this autumn and winter. The tours will cost £15 (inc. booking fee) with a maximum of 15 people …
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FREE Official Manchester Literature Festival Tours
This October, as every October, the Manchester Literature Festival is taking place, so we at New Manchester Walks are hosting our annual FREE literary tours. These tours are led by much-published author Ed Glinert, a Penguin Classics editor:
* Charles Dickens’ Manchester, Wednesday 18 October, 11am from the Queen Victoria statue in Piccadilly Gardens.
* Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester, Thursday 26 October, 11am from St Ann’s Church. The tour includes a visit to the Portico Library, where William Gaskell, Elizabeth’s husband, was chairman for 35 years in the mid-19th century, and after a stroll around town visiting Gaskellian haunts, a bus ride to Chorlton-on-Medlock to explore Dover Street, where the Gaskells first lived when they married in 1832, ending up natch at the Elizabeth Gaskell House.
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HEBDEN BRIDGE TOUR MOVED TO WED 30 SEP
Due to what the met office call a weather situation we had to move our much-anticipated Hebden Bridge & Heptonstall tour, which was supposed to take place on Tuesday 25 August, to Wednesday 30 September, 12 noon start from Hebden Bridge station.
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HONOURING MANCHESTER’S GREATEST WRITER, THOMAS DE QUINCEY
Ed Glinert will be giving a talk at the Portico Library in the evening of Thursday the 28th of October to mark the 200th anniversary of Thomas de Quincey’s “Confessions of An English Opium-Eater, the first major work of English literature to feature Manchester at length.
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Today is Peterloo Day: Monday the 16th of August
Today is the day in 1819 when sabre-wielding troops charged 60,000 Mancunians at a rally in St Peter’s Field called to lower the price of bread and demand the vote. More than a dozen people were killed and some 650 injured.
Join Ed Glinert on an expert TOUR relating the entire Peterloo story starting at 2.30pm from Central Library, St Peter’s Square.
The first few decades of the 19th century, enshrined in public imagination as the elegant age of the Regency, were a time of severe political repression in England. The Tory government, led by Lord Liverpool, feared that the kind of revolutionary activity recently witnessed in France would break out in England – probably in Manchester, where social conditions were so desperate – and decided to stamp out all dissent and free speech.
The government had been at war with France, which saw Wellington triumph over Napoleon’s forces at Waterloo in 1815.
But as Paul Foot once wrote, the British government was also waging war against its own people.
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COME ON A WALK! HOW IT WORKS
We have the most extensive range of tours of any walks organisation in the country, covering the city of Manchester in incredible detail, but even going as far as Knutsford, Alderley Edge, Wigan and Liverpool in our enthusiasm to deliver entertaining and exhilarating tours.
Please see the Calendar page on this website to discover what we do day by day.
For now we do a daily “Welcome to Manchester” at 1.30pm from the Visitor Centre in Piccadilly Gardens, but practically every day there’s a tour from our vast repertoire on …
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This is Peterloo week. Two tours this Wednesday and the reading of the names
16 August 1819. A peaceful meeting of some 60,000 people at St Peter’s Fields, where the Free Trade Hall and the Theatre Royal are now, called to demand the right to vote, was attacked by the military. A dozen were killed on the spot, more died of their injuries. The injured numbered 650.
The build-up to the day, the dramatic events that took place, the remarkable aftermath…Ed Glinert will capture all this on the two tours taking place this Wednesday, the 16th of August. The evening tour takes place after the reading of the names of the victims.
Please book on Eventbrite.
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7 THINGS YOU NEVER KNEW ABOUT ANCOATS next FREE tour, Sunday 14 November, 11am
It was Britain’s first industrial suburb, a land of massive mills, smoking chimneys, mean terraced housing with ne’er a tree or blade of grass in sight. That was 1820. Now in 2020 it has been reborn as the main mighty meme of Manchester, high-life Central, with a high-maintenance history. Here is a hit of hot history from the ’hood.
* Next tour is FREE: Sat 13 November 2021, 11am from the Band on the Wall.
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Marx & Engels in Manchester, new date, Sat 28 Aug, 2.30pm from HOME
Many apologies for cancelling today’s (Sat 31 July) “Marx & Engels in Manchester” tour. A leaky boiler meant that I had to stay in for the afternoon. The re-arranged date is Sat 28 August, also at 2.30pm, and from the Engels statue outside HOME. Please use your tickets for that or for any alternative walk – Ed. New bookings can be made in the main body of this piece.
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