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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. Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →

• 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. Continue reading →

Many thanks to everyone who came on today’s Grand Canals of Manchester tour (Saturday 2 March). Many who booked didn’t make it, so we’re running it again – Saturday 20 April. Same time, 11am. Same place, outside the Malmaison Hotel at 3 Piccadilly. Please book with Eventbrite when it comes up later. Ed. Continue reading →

That’s your birthday/retirement/Baptism/Barmitzvah present problems solved! Buy, buy, buy a New Manchester Walks gift voucher, redeemable on any of our hundred-plus tours in and around the world’s greatest industrial city (no, not Birmingham, you schmerel). Continue reading →

The Calendar section of our website needs a bit of tlc, so in the meantime, please go to Eventbrite, Facebook, or the individual pages to check what’s on. Plenty of tours! Continue reading →

Today, Wednesday the 7th of February, Ed Glinert is hosting a private music tour. To book similar, contact New Manchester Walks. Ed Glinert, who worked for Mojo magazine and co-authored the Fodor Rock ‘n’ Traveller series, has taken hundreds of Manchester, Liverpool and London music tours over the last 20+ years. The next public Manchester music tour is at 2.30pm on Saturday the 6th of April from  HOME. Please book on Eventbrite. Continue reading →

Alan Turing. He didn’t invent the computer, but he is the best known figure associated with the remarkable developments on the 1940s when Manchester DID create the world’s first. So join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and most prolific tour guide on this free tour of Alan Turing’s Manchester.
This free tour: Sunday 11 February 2024, 12 noon.
Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock.
Booking: Please book with Eventbrite. Continue reading →

Jonathan Schofield, the Manchester tour guide who can’t get the most basic facts about Manchester history correct, has written to New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert asking him to stop guiding in Manchester. Sadly, this is not surprising. Schofield, and his fellow guides who don’t actually guide – Elizabeth Sibbering, Jean Bailo, Kate Dibble, Sue McCarthy etc – have been trying to stop Glinert guiding for nearly 15 years by removing him from every single guiding programme and group that he has a right to be a member of. This is clearly an anti-Semitic campaign against Manchester’s only Jewish guide. In that time Glinert has conducted around 5,500 tours of Manchester and invented around a hundred new walks and talks to entertain and inform the public on: Alan Turing, the Pankhursts, Jewish Manchester, Marx & Engels, Art, Architecture… Continue reading →

Strangeways. The very name enough to send a frisson of fear down the spine of the most hardened criminal. Join Ed Glinert, out for the day, on a free tour around the seedy streets of shame to hear about some of the most frightening names in British history:
• Harold Shipman
• Ian Brady
• Ian Brown
• Joey Barton
• “Mad” Frankie Fraser
And those were the ones they didn’t hang. The Blackpool Poisoner and the John West killer they did.

• Starts at 12 noon sharp from Victoria Station wallmap. No slags! Continue reading →