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 9th of November 2024, 2pm. 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 spent 45 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon layer …
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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 dead rats in it. It’s a wonder anyone made it out the Victorian century alive. …
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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 at what is now the Cathedral, decided to build a new church in what had …
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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 South Africa, New Zealand and Palestine were built at Gorton Tank, Gorton Foundry, Beyer Peacock. …
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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 of old Salford boasts a similarly proud religious history. Standing supreme with an elegant tower …
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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 South Africa, New Zealand and Palestine were built at Gorton Tank and Gorton Locomotive Works. …
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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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