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ANNUAL CORONATION ST ANNIVERSARY TOUR – FRI 9 DECEMBER, Updated Info
Change of plan for 9 December – and not because we’ve been ripped-off by Phelan and Vinnie. We will be starting this year’s annual commemoration of Britain’s most famous TV street, celebrating its 56th birthday this day, at Ashton-under-Lyne tram stop (at 1.30pm). We can then do a bit of walking and a bit of tramming to visit some key Corrie sites:
* Richard Hillman’s watery grave
* Weatherfield Registry Office
* Corrie’s birthplace
* Granadaland
* Cropper Corner
* Fiz’s Restaurant
* The tour is hosted by Ed Glinert who led the campaign to get the old Granada set re-opened, who has guided on the new set in Trafford Park (but not on this occasion, alas) and who hosts events with the stars (with Kemptville Travel). Continue reading
Latest Zoom talk-tours with Cruise Ships Speaker Ed Glinert
Missing walking the Manchester streets hearing the history of the world’s greatest industrial city? While you’re inside but would rather be outside we can make you feel like you’re onside on our Zoom talk-tours, even better than the real thing, as U2 once said, covering every one of our hundred or so walks in and around Manchester.
Yes, we will be zooming all the usual tours – Ancoats, Angel Meadow, Architecture, Alan Turing, Art…and that’s just the As – as well as doing the usual walking tours on foot in person. It also offers you, the customer, a wider experience. Continue reading
Next Official Tours of Manchester
We are the official guides of Manchester, as trained by me, Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and most prolific tour guide.
These are the next eye-opening, expert, entertaining, enlightening tours at the end of November 2024.
Needless to say, these are the only such tours where you will get stories you will love to hear that nobody else will tell you.
* Saturday 30 November, 11am, The Grand Canals of Manchester, 11am, from outside Malmaison, 3 Piccadilly.
* Saturday 30 November, 2pm, On the trail of the Smiths, from the Chinese Arch, Faulkner Street. Continue reading
Sir Bobby Charlton R.I.P.
With great sadness we join the world mourning the death of one of the greatest sportsmen in history, Sir Bobby Charlton. There will be countless articles and obituaries over the next few weeks. Here are extracts from Ed Glinert’s forthcoming “111 Places Manchester United Fans Shouldn’t Miss”. Continue reading
No Elizabeth Gaskell today, alas. Ed Glinert still not 100 per cent
No Elizabeth Gaskell today, alas. Ed Glinert still not 100 per cent
Very sorry about this, folks, but I’m not cured, so I won’t be able to do “Elizabeth Gaskell” today.
Those of you who came on the Pankhursts on Sunday will remember that I was struggling.
Many apologies. I’m close to recovering.
All the best
Ed Continue reading
Don’t Fancy Coming Out? Cruise ships speaker extraordinaire Ed Glinert can host a huge selection of Zoom tours on Manchester or national history for your group
These are just some of the tours we can offer on Zoom:
Alan Turing • Ancoats • Architecture of Manchester • Chetham’s & the Cathedral • Classic Corrie locations • Hacienda Years Music • Jack the Ripper • L. S. Lowry • Manchester Town Hall • Marx & Engels • Midland Hotel • Pre-Raphaelites • Royal Scandal Through the Ages • Secrets of MI5 • Secrets of MI6 • Underground Manchester…and many many more Continue reading
Manchester: City of Science
A Manchester University-based scientist has just won the Nobel Prize for physics. By an amazing coincidence, this year’s Manchester Science Festival is imminent, and NMW will be running a programme of science-themed walks at the end of October in conjunction with the Festival, such as the aptly named “Mad Inventors of Manchester”, and others devoted to the story of John Dalton and Alan Turing.
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Police Latest
So, R.I.P. Robert Mark, former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, doyen of TV road safety adverts and 1940s Manchester copper. Mark features on our “Gangland Manchester” walk (next outing Thu 14 Oct) when we stop outside Bootle Street nick and hear how as a simple PC the man who later became Britain’s most powerful cop had to tackle members of the notorious political gang Continue reading
At a Glance: Walks A-Z
See at a glance when our most popular walks are taking place.
But please check the website homepage and calendar before heading off for a tour.
Here’s a sample: “The 7 Wonders of Manchester”, Fri 6 Nov, 1pm, from St Ann’s Church.
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The Sinister Spies & Spooks Preparations That Have Been Taking Place for the Tory Party Conference in Manchester!
While you dodge the security ring of steel around Peter Street and join the protests against the conference – or may be you’re attending the fringe events enthusiastically! – just muse over the bizarre secret service preparations that were taking place inside the Midland Hotel, where the popular Tory Cabinet are staying. A couple of months ago, innocent looking guests… Continue reading