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TODAY’S ANCOATS CANCELLED DUE TO EXCESSIVE RAIN
Sorry folks, it just doesn’t work in bad weather as it’s so open.
Please use your ticket for the next date in September, or alternatively use it for any tour of your choice.
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Our walks for early September – Click “Continue Reading” below for more info
Next walks
* Sat 3 Sep, Le Corbusier’s Manchester. Meet 11am by the Visitor Centre.
* Sat 3 Sep Hitler’s Plans for Manchester. Meet 2pm at Victoria Station wallmap.
* Sun 4 Sep, The Grand Canals of Manchester (East). Meet 1.30pm at the Malmaison Hotel.
* Mon 5 Sep, Manchester Cathedral & Chetham’s. Meet 2pm at Victoria Station wallmap.
* Tue 6 Sep, John Dalton’s Manchester (250 years since his birth). Meet at the Art Gallery, 11.30am.
* Wed 7 Sep, Angel Meadow. Meet 6pm at Victoria Station wallmap.
* Thu 8 Sep, The Hidden Gems of Manchester. Meet 11am by the Visitor Centre.
* Thu 8 Sep, The Grand Hotels of Manchester. Meet 2.30pm by the Visitor Centre.
* Fri 9 Sep, Lost Manchester. Meet 11.30am at the Victoria Station wallmap.
* Fri 9 Sep, The Mysterious Manchester pub walk. Meet 6pm at the Victoria Station wallmap.
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This Sunday, 16 July, Annual Bridgewater Canal Celebration
Every July we celebrate the Bridgewater Canal, Britain’s first industrial man-made waterway, which opened on the 17th of July 1761 and soon connected Manchester with the coal mines of Worsley. So join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, to explore the waters, banks, sites and sights alongside.
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WELCOME TO MANCHESTER: Daily tour at 10.45am until Christmas
This tour is the big one for anybody new to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you have reached before.
“Welcome to Manchester” is the ideal walk – a taster, a teaser, a trip through town on a timeless tourist trail.
It’s a best of everything, taking in the old and the new, the ancient and the artful, the glamorous and the glorious.
* The tour has been devised by official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium and the forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia.
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THE TOWN HALL MURALS…RARE OPPORTUNITY
Ed Glinert is delivering a talk on the Town Hall Ford Madox Brown Murals on Tuesday 10 July 5.30pm at Manchester Central Library.
This is a very rare opportunity to have the paintings explained by Manchester’s most prolific tour guide, who has spent an eternity studying the paintings, while the Town Hall is shut.
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Bizarre behaviour this week regarding our tours
I know we live in strange times, and are surrounded by lots of unexplained phenomena, like how anyone thought Liz Truss should be leader of the Tory party and PM, and why Chelsea or anyone would appoint Frank Lampard as manager, but some of the stuff I’ve had to endure this week has been strange even by the usual odd guiding standards. On Wednesday some 16 people booked for the Secret History tour. Two turned up.
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FOOTBALL MIGHT BE COMING HOME. BUT WHERE TO?
If football is, as many are alleging, “coming home”, where is it coming home to? It can’t be Wembley Stadium; not the new Wembley, that concrete monstrosity which has replaced the 1966 World Cup winning stadium and Owen Williams’ beautiful twin towers, unnecessarily demolished. It can’t be any individual club ground. No, the only place I can think of that is the true home of football is the place where the Football Association, the world’s first such body in the modern era, was founded: the Freemason’s Tavern on Long Acre, Covent Garden, London (now the Connaught Rooms). It was there…
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THE TOURIST BOARD HAS APPROVED A RETURN TO GUIDING, SO PLEASE JOIN US SAFELY
Well, we knew it would happen one day. The world is gradually unlocking and we at New Manchester Walks are in the forefront of a return to tourism, history, guiding. We’re also thinking of your safety, so masks are welcome.
Coming up: Ancoats, Angel Meadow, Jewish, Music, Northern Quarter, Peterloo, Secret History, the Smiths, Southern Cemetery, Strangeways and so much more.
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Discovering Manchester: Join us in the morning, starting Mon 20 July
This is the official expert entertaining introduction to the city, an in-depth, original and eye-opening tour devised by Manchester’s most prolific tour guide and energetic historian, Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium and compiler of the Manchester Encyclopaedia.
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Manchester International Festival tours: Wednesday 5 July 2023 – Jewish Manchester
* Tour: Sat 1 July 2023, 10.30am.
* Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square.
It is now just over a hundred and three years (1 December 1919) since a woman entered the British Parliament for the first time. American socialite Nancy Astor won a by-election for the Unionists in Plymouth Sutton, ironically replacing her husband, Waldorf Astor, who had just been ennobled.
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