The Baroque & Gothic Palaces tour has been subsumed into the Manchester Architecture Trial for now. Please see http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/art-architecture/the-manchester-architecture-trail/

NEXT TOURS The Glories of Manchester Architecture: Sat 9 Nov 2024.  Guide: RIBA judge Ed Glinert. Starts: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** The Builder magazine once declared “one can scarcely walk about Manchester without coming across frequent examples of the grand in architecture. There …
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Next tour: Wednesday 30 October 2024, 11.30 a.m. Meet: At the entrance of Manchester Art Gallery. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Only Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide and Arts Society lecturer, can reveal the mysteries and symbolism of the gallery’s best loved Victorian paintings. The Pre-Raphaelites were Britain’s most important art …
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Next tours: See Walks & Tours: “The Pre-Raphaelites” or “The Great Art Treasures of Manchester”. Meet: Art Gallery. “What in the world do you want with art in Manchester? Why can’t you stick to your cotton spinning?” That was the impolite response from William Cavendish, seventh Duke of Devonshire, when asked by the organisers of …
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Next Walking tour: Tuesday 17 September 2024 Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.  Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now sell for millions. He called himself a “simple man”, but he was the …
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Next FREE tour: Friday 3 February 2023 Meet: outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Manchester Art Gallery is home to Britain’s greatest collection of Pre-Raphaelite works, and in the streets beyond L. S. Lowry, Adolphe Valette and even William Morris have left their signature. Join us …
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For now, we’re doing separate Lowry and Valette tours. Please see relevant pages.

Next Tour: When Boris says it’s okay. Booking: With eventbrite. *** His students called him “Mr  Monsieur”. His devotees praised his unique vision of Manchester. His legacy is the most important in Manchester’s art history. Adolphe Valette left a mesmerising series of impressionist views of Manchester; the fogs, the smogs, the industrial haze of the …
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