Walks & Tours
Tony Wilson’s Manchester
Tony Wilson never wrote a song, sang one or played an instrument. Yet he created the modern Manchester music scene. He made things happen; he cajoled people into doing important things. He harried, encouraged, pushed, promoted. It might be fair to say without him Manchester’s music history might have stopped with Sad Café.
As part of the Manchester Heroes and Heroines weekend in April, Fri 20– Sun 22 we honour one of the most popular figures in recent Manchester history: a vainglorious, proud, arrogant, infuriating but genius impresario.
* 11.30am, HOME Arts Centre. No need to book.
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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester
Next walking tour: Manchester Literature Festival, Wednesday 6 November 2024. Meet: St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. How this walk works * A simple walk around Gaskellian sights and sites in the city centre. * A trip up to the Portico Library where the Rev Wm Gaskell …
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Marple and the Peak Forest
Next tour: Sunday 2 August 2021. Meet: outside Romiley Station, 12.15pm. Cost: £10.50 booking in advance. £10 cash on the day, £15 for two cash on the day. What you need to know: If you are coming on the tour and paying cash, please let us know in advance! e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com Booking: Please press here …
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Ashton-under-Lyne
• Next tour: No dates yet as we did it twice in 2017. • Meet: Ashton Metrolink station, time tbc. In the far far east of Manchester they do things differently. Two hundred years ago a ranting prophet called John Wroe set up his Christian Israelite church and declared Ashton to be the “new Jerusalem”. In …
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Seven Wonders of Manchester
No public dates yet. The glories, grandeur and greatness of the city. These are the Seven Wonders of Manchester; wondrous places, majestic settings, extraordinary stories: the world’s biggest trading room, a Cathedral of Culture, masterpieces of religious art, an unforgettable Gothic shrine, tens of thousands of faces forming one famous face and a celebration of …
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Formidable Women of Manchester
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: at the Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square, tbc. Booking: These women and more… * Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company. * Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848. * Hannah Mitchell, who challenged Churchill at St John’s …
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Great Treasures of Manchester
Next tour: Friday 20 July 2018. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens, 2.30pm. The city hosts and holds a thousand treasures: glorious buildings, priceless artefacts, unforgettable stories. We’ve picked out some of the greatest for a remarkable new tour. • Wolfgang Buttress’s stirring Tree of Remembrance in Piccadilly Gardens – the one site of wonder in the …
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Midland Hotel, Manchester – The Full tour on Zoom
The next tour is on Zoom, the full tour – every story, every nook, every cranny, every celeb. Date: No dates yet. Meet: On your computer! Booking: Not yet Cost: £7.50 * What an opportunity this is, given that you can’t tour the Midland Hotel in person because of Covid and building works, and even …
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George Brown
Is Boris Johnson the most unsuitable foreign secretary Britain has ever had? No. That title belongs to George Brown, the dypso deputy leader of the Labour Party at the end of the ’60s. Private Eye coined the phrase “tired and emotional”, meaning blind drunk, after Brown publicly insulted the wife of the British ambassador to …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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