Category Archives: Art & Architecture

Next Tour: No dates yet, but the Glories of Manchester Architecture is on Friday the 19th of May 2023 at noon from outside the Midland Hotel. Booking: With eventbrite. Waterhouse, Worthington. Walters, Wood, Wilson, Womersley…and those are just the Ws. We will walk around the … Continue reading →

Next tour: Sometime in 2023, we hope. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street, time tbc. The two most powerful influences on 20th century architecture were the American Frank Lloyd Wright and the Swiss Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier … Continue reading →

Next FREE tour, The Great Art Treasures of Manchester: Tue 4 June 2024. Meet: outside St Ann’s Church. St Ann Street, 11.15 a.m. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Thoroughly-detailed and wonderfully enlightening tours of Manchester’s greatest art … Continue reading →

“Concrete Jungle”, the modern architecture tour, has been subsumed into “Le Corbusier’s Manchester” for now. Please see Walks & Tours