Category Archives: Walks & Tours

Central Library

Posted on 16/04/2015 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Salford: Chapel Street & The Crescent

Posted on 30/12/2014 by ed

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 … Continue reading →

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The Manchester Town Hall Story, From A-Z

Posted on 09/12/2014 by ed

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 … Continue reading →

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Southern Cemetery

Posted on 31/07/2014 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Left-Wing Manchester – From German Fred to Red Ed

Posted on 16/05/2014 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Manchester in 10 Songs

Posted on 09/04/2014 by admin

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, … Continue reading →

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Manchester in 10 Architects

Posted on 09/04/2014 by admin

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 →

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10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World

Posted on 09/04/2014 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Manchester in XI Footballers

Posted on 09/04/2014 by admin

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.

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On The Waterfront: Peerless Pierhead

Posted on 27/06/2013 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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