Category Archives: Walks & Tours
Rusholme
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Hardy’s Well pub, corner Dickenson Road/Wilmslow Road
Secret History of Manchester
Next tour: Saturday the 1st of March 2025, 2.30pm. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has … Continue reading
Victorian Diseases
Next tour: No dates until the guide recovers from typhus fever. Private Booking: Please contact us from your convalescent home. *** Mill fever, typhus, typhoid, cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever … and something even worse from drinking water with tadpoles and … Continue reading
St Ann’s Church
For now we feature St Ann’s on tours such as: * Jewish Manchester. * The Great Art Treasures of Manchester. * Manchester’s Religious Shrines. *** Wealthy worshippers in the 18th century, unhappy with the High Church nature of the services … Continue reading
Greek Manchester
Next tour: No new dates until the Euro crisis is over. They invented architecture, politics, philosophy, science and culture. But apart from that, what did the Greeks ever do for Manchester? Greek Manchester, not Greece
Gorton
Next tours: Sun 12 Feb 2012, Sun 20 May 2012. Meet: Gorton Monastery (in the cafe), 11.30am. Cost: £7.50 (which mostly goes to the Monastery). Gorton was once the workshop of the world. Here the first locomotives taking trains across … Continue reading
Salford Cathedral
Next tour: no dates yet. On this tour we start in Manchester and rundown a potted history of Manchester Cathedral before crossing the Irwell into the great northern city of Salford. On the north bank of the Irwell the centre … Continue reading
Gorton Monastery – Talks and Tours
Ed Glinert is back at Gorton Monastery delivering talks. Please see Monastery website. To book, please contact the Monastery on 0161 223 3211 Gorton was once the workshop of the world. Here the first locomotives taking trains across … Continue reading
