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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. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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”… Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

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!  Continue reading →

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.  Continue reading →

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. Continue reading →

Alongside the exciting theatrical productions at the new Factory, there are historical tours of the city. This Saturday, 15 July, at 11am, Ed Glinert will be giving a most illuminating free tour on Manchester’s links with slavery and how the ship on the city coat of arms IS a slave ship, even though you know who told the Guardian it wasn’t. 
Meet at Victoria Station wallmap. Please book on Eventbrite. Continue reading →

Congratulations to Manchester City for not only winning the League, but retaining it in one of the tightest campaigns for years. But almost as remarkable is the rise and rise of Salford City, now in the Football League.  Continue reading →