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Our purpose as tour guides is to open up Manchester history with entertaining, expert, enlightening tours. Our tours are different from the traditional blue badge fayre. For instance we won’t tell you that Rolls and Royce met at the Midland Hotel (they didn’t), we won’t talk about the “three rivers” of Manchester (there are four), we won’t claim that George Orwell called Manchester “the belly and guts of the nation” (he never did), or that the pillar box on Corporation Street is the one that survived the 1996 bomb (it isn’t). The reason why we have to open up Manchester history is because a number of local Blue Badge guides have spent the last 25 years idiotically censoring it!  

You want to get to know Manchester better. Of course you do! It’s the world’s first industrial city (quiet, Birmingham), Britain’s second city (quiet, Birmingham)…
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Alan Turing – Ancoats – Angel Meadow – Art – Architecture – Corrie – cotton – football – Free Trade Hall – Industrial Revolution – Midland Hotel – music – Peterloo – Pankhursts – radical politics – Salford Quays – scientific discovery – the Smiths – Tony Wilson – Victoriana…our expert tours.

And now, as a special present to you, the great Manchester public, many of our tours till the end of the year are FREE.

Hurry while stocks last and please register on Eventbrite.
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Discover Manchester, the capital of the North, with the city’s official guides.

Next tours
* Wed 25 Sep, The History of Manchester in 20 Objects, 12 noon from outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland St.
* Fri 27 Sep, The Formidable Women of Manchester, 12 noon from the Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square. 
* Fri 27 Sep, The Secret History of Manchester, 3pm from outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland St.
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Sorry folks. No tour tonight. Only 2 sales. Very odd. We used to sell 30, 35, 40 a tour! Next date: Thu 13 July, TfGM travelshop, 6pm.
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Picturesque black-and-white timber-framed waterside buildings, Britain’s first man-made waterway, and underground canals running through the Delph, a dramatic 52 mile system of caves and tunnels. And now the latest RHS garden, about to open, which will bring thousands to the village and area.
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Join official Manchester Bridgewater and Rochdale canals tour guide Ed Glinert on an eye-opening FREE tour of the city’s industrial waterways: the Rochdale Canal, the Bridgewater Canal and any others we can find. Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, author of the forthcoming first ever epic history of the city, “Manchester: The Biography”…
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Thank you everybody for making “Underground Manchester: The Full Tour on Zoom” so successful. Next tour: Wed 24 Feb, 7pm.

This is an ingenious tour devised by Ed Glinert and fellow guides who have spent far too long below the streets of the city but have come up for air long enough to host this tour.
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Spend the weekend exploring Manchester on our unique, entertaining and unbelievably informative tours.
* Sat 27th, Peterloo, 11am. Meet outside Central Library.
* Sat 27th, Angel Meadow, 2.30pm. Meet at Victoria Station wallmap.
* Sun 28th, Strangeways, 12 noon. Meet at Victoria Station wallmap
If you can’t book on Eventbrite, please just turn up! 
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Our mission is to open up Manchester and Liverpool history. So this Easter weekend join us on Underground Manchester, Underground Liverpool and Knutsford. Booking on Eventbrite. 
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Let’s put this carefully. The idiotic director of Whitworth Art Gallery, Alistair Hudson, has been forced out of his post by Manchester University after getting confused about what an art gallery director is supposed to do and succumbing to the fashionable Corbynesque pastime of Jew-bashing.
To me, Ed Glinert, Britain’s most prolific tour guide, author of the incomparable Compendium guides and more, tourism expert, and creator of Manchester as a tourist destination, it’s quite simple – the gallery’s role is to put on exhibitions, get people inside and educate the public on art.
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