Walks & Tours
Town Hall Clock Tower Tours
Next tours: Sadly, for now the tours have had to be suspended due to repair work. The tower will probably re-open in 2023, and we don’t mean twenty-three minutes past eight. Duration: About 75 minutes. Do I need to be sprightly, fit and active? Yes. There are hundreds of steps! Meet: Just inside Manchester Town Hall’s Lloyd …
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The Horrors of Eating, Drinking & Living in Victorian Manchester
**THIS TOUR IS No. 1 ON TRIPEADVISOR!** Next tour: Tuesday 29 September 2020, if the guide manages to finish porking his way through that plate of cow pie. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Horrors? Most certainly. Towards the end of the 19th century the Ministry of Health conducted a survey of …
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Urban Wastelands Of Manchester
Next tour: Wed 25 April 2012. Meet: Star & Garter pub, Fairfield Street, by Piccadilly Station. Need we say more!
Spies & Spooks
Next tour: Wed 15 Feb 2012. Meet: Manchester Visitor Information Centre, directly above the secret state cold war nuclear bunker (believe it) at exactly 2.30pm. Bring: The documents. Those ones. Beware: Guides who may not be guides. Fellow walkers who may not be fellow walkers. Tour locations that aren’t tour locations. End: Citing diplomatic immunity in a third …
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Psychogeographic Manchester
Next tour: 14 March 2012. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap.
Nuclear Manchester
Next tour: 9 May 2012. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza.
Manchester’s Murder Mile
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street. Tour replaced for now by Hangman’s Manchester.
Hell Is A City
Next tour: Wed 23 May 2012 Meet: Oxford Road Station, 2.30pm. Rivers clogged with excrement and decomposing bodies. Rampant crime. Factories “vomiting” toxic fumes and changing the colour of the horizon for miles around. Is this the Manchester of today? Not quite! Welcome to Victorian Manchester! Manchester was the “Shock City” of the age, to borrow historian …
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Hangman’s Manchester
Next tour: No public dates. Private Tours: Please send an s.a.e. to Mr. Albert Pierrepoint, Landlord, The Help The Poor Struggler alehouse, 303 Manchester Road, Oldham. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. Manchester can boast of being the city where the last hanging took place, that of Gwynne Owen Evans at Strangeways prison on Thursday 13 …
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God’s Manchester
Next tour: 4th April 2012 Meet: Victoria Station wallmap.
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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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