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Welcome to New Manchester Walks’ second virtual tour, which is all we can do at this time. We take you on a section of our ingenious “Undiscovered Manchester” walk, using the real-life route and a history highlight at each stop.

For the first tour we took a clockwise route around the Library. This tour heads in a different direction towards Cross Street and Corporation Street.
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This is New Manchester Walks’ first virtual tour. It’s all we can do at this time, sadly, but we love to give good value.

So sit back, bring to your mind the geography of the area around Manchester Town Hall, and soak in the history on this section of our ingenious “Undiscovered Manchester” walk that we plan to run when things return to normal, using the real-life route and a history highlight at each stop. 
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Why are there two groups of guides? Surely you’re all just Manchester tour guides?
We are the official guides of Manchester, the only group of trained guides open to all guides, past present and future. Our group, New Manchester Walks, is run commercially. We believe in taking on new guides, opening up Manchester history, and providing entertaining and informative walks, talks and coach tours, not just in Manchester but beyond – in Liverpool, Knutsford, Haworth, London – using the best possible guides.
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Hi folks. Ed Glinert here. Really looking forward to meeting everyone back on the streets of Manchester, Liverpool, Worsley, Knutsford, Haworth, London or wherever my tour is! We will be continuing Zoom as well, because the format allows us to do things we can’t do in real life. To illustrate this
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Join Ed Glinert, Britain’s most prolific tour guide, on New Manchester Walks’ eye-opening expert entertaining enthralling enlightening tours…this week:
* Thu 30 March, John Rylands Library And…
Meet St Ann’s Church, 11.30am. 
SOLD OUT, although many who register don’t turn up, so if you’d like to take your chance turning up…
* Fri 31 March, Southern Cemetery
Meet by the cemetery gates, 12.30pm.
* Fri 31 March, Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, Yorkshire Ripper – and some really bad types. 
Meet outside Central Library, 5.30pm.
* Sat 1 April, Strangeways: No Escape…anniversary of the start of the riots
Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm.
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Hello. Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks here. Thinking of you all and praying we all keep well. I can’t do much other than sincerely wish all customers, past, present and future, and all tour guides the best of health. Like you, we’re itching to get back to normality. In the meantime I will post up articles on Manchester history and art to keep you entertained…
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Boris has boomed. Monday 17 May: groups of up to 30 people, which means we can take you round the streets of Manchester, Liverpool, Haworth, Knutsford and beyond.

And we kick off with a sojourn among the graves and Gothic glories of Southern Cemetery at 12 noon.

This has to be booked (on Eventbrite) as we can only take 30, not 300, folks!
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Ed Glinert here. I would advise all those interested in going on Manchester tours to avoid the organisation “Manchester Guided Tours” run by Jean Bailo, Pauline Lloyd, Kate Dibble et al. They are an institutionally anti-Semitic body that operates an apartheid system against the city’s only Jewish guide – me – banning and excluding me from every single guiding group and programme I am entitled to belong to. Instead of working with me to create better tours, these four women have been lying, cheating, bullying and constantly trying to stop me working as a guide. When I examine their corrupt behaviour, it is easy to see how the Post Office bosses got away with theirs for so many years. So that the public knows what is happening, read on for an explanation.
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We can’t take you on any tours right now, so instead Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks is continuing his controversial campaign of opening up Manchester history to as many people as possible by offering this virtual tour, discussing, dissecting and deducing in detail  one fo the greatest paintings in Manchester Art Gallery, “The Shadow of Death” by William Holman Hunt (1870-73).

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Holman Hunt, the great Pre-Raphaelite artist, one of the movement’s founding members in 1848, did not have an auspicious time in Manchester. At the opening ceremony for the Art Gallery in 1882
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• Wed 27 Mar Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Ripper, the Hangman & the Unmentionable One
Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 5.30pm.
• Thu 28 Mar The Secret History of Manchester
Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens, 6pm.
• Fri 29 Mar Manchester’s Beautiful Interiors
Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 2pm.
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