Walks & Tours
Central Library
Treasures of the Manchester Libraries Meet: At the entrance of John Rylands Library, Deansgate. Date: Thursday 19 March 2020, 2.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. An unmissable opportunity to gaze in awe at literary rarities and first editions including the oldest piece of the New Testament in existence, first folios of Shakespeare, …
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Salford: Chapel Street & The Crescent
Next tour: Sunday 31 July 2022. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Chapel Street has been bished, bashed and battered something rotten by the council and developers over the last fifty years but there are signs that it is fighting back. As for The Crescent, here can be …
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The Manchester Town Hall Story, From A-Z
To highlight our ever-popular Town Hall tours (11am, every Tuesday, 2.30pm Sundays plus some evenings…meeting at the Midland Hotel…details as of summer 2014), here’s an alphabetical taster… A …is for Alfred Waterhouse Alfred Waterhouse won the commission to design Manchester Town Hall, which was built between 1868 and 1877. He beat off over 130 competitors including …
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Southern Cemetery
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials of 245 Barlow Moor Road ).(Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 10 minutes walk away). Please don’t go to: The Crematorium, Nell Lane… Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** New Manchester Walks will take you around Southern Cemetery, final resting place …
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Left-Wing Manchester – From German Fred to Red Ed
Next tours: This tour has now been subsumed into the Marx & Engels, Pankhursts and Peterloo tours. Bring: A copy of Clause IV. More apt than Mao’s Little Red Book. How apt that the People’s History museum is located in Manchester on the left bank (sic) of the River Irwell. But why are there more …
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Manchester in 10 Songs
As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, time tbc. Booking: Private tour: Please contact New Manchester Walks The sounds of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, the Fall, Elbow, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, John Cooper Clarke… We will walk in search …
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Manchester in 10 Architects
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 city, admiring the key buildings, citing the great and not-so-great architects. Waterhouse is of course …
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10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World
Next tour is on Zoom with Trafford Libraries: Tuesday 1 November 2022, 2pm. Meet: on your computer. Booking: Please see Trafford Libraries website. Manchester invented the modern world, for this was the first city of the industrial revolution, and its inhabitants have given society some of its greatest creations. These are the ones we detail on …
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Manchester in XI Footballers
We’ve only just added this to our repertoire! We’ll have a route, a date and a description up and running, quicker than a Garry Birtles debut goal.
On The Waterfront: Peerless Pierhead
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. It’s the greatest urban panorama in the country, a mesmerising vista of baroque towers, skyscraping elevations, exquisite stone palaces and breathtaking brick warehouses. It’s Liverpool by the sea…Pierhead…not just Three Graces but the Art Deco marvel that …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester Atomic Connection
Did you see Oppenheimer, the blockbuster, Oscar-winning film about the atom bomb, 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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