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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.
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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).
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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!
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Ed Glinert here:
As the journalist who did more pieces (for City Life and Private Eye) on James Anderton, the former Greater Manchester chief constable who died on the 5 of May aged 89, than anyone, can I remind younger readers just how ridiculous he was.
When Anderton became chief constable of the newly-formed Greater Manchester Police in 1976 he quickly announced that he had a direct line to God and stated that he might be the living reincarnation of Oliver Cromwell. He sent coppers in motor boats flashing torches underneath the arches of the Rochdale Canal looking for men having sex with other men. He later denounced AIDS sufferers as “swirling around in cesspit of their own-making”.
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• It’s Manchester’s greatest ever building, a 5-star hotel built out of the shell of the famous Free Trade Hall.
• It’s the world-renowned venue where Bob Dylan was booed, the Who were banned and the Sex Pistols changed the course of modern music.
• It’s where the great orators – Gladstone, Disraeli, Lloyd George Churchill – thrilled the crowds with their rhapsodies and rhetoric.

Hear the history, soak in the sleek style and lounge in its luxurious locations. Then, when the tour’s over, take tea and tiffin or a tipple in the Opus or Alto bar. What a great way of spending two hours!
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This is Elizabeth Charnley, “fellow” Manchester tour guide. Elizabeth doesn’t do any tours, but is determined to stop New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert from guiding in Manchester. Why? Glinert has no idea. When he first discovered Elizabeth had qualified as a new guide a few years ago, he immediately offered her tours of Salford Quays, near where she lives. Her response was to expel him from the North-West Association of tour guides with a relish that was almost psychopathic in its execution even though she had never met Glinert before. It was as if this was the only reason she became a tour guide. She was shaking with rage. This was pure unintelligible, inexplicable, vindictive behaviour by a seriously troubled person. Glinert has appealed against this decision but is not allowed this basic justice.
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