Walks & Tours
Fear & Loathing In Manchester
Next tour: 8th February 2012 Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street.
Fascist Manchester
Next tour: Wed 11th April 2012 Meet: Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza. Despite its left-wing credentials, Manchester has some shady political connections. The most infamous figure in British fascist history was Oswald Mosley, 1930s leader of the British Union of Fascists. But he was also the 6th Baronet Mosley of Ancoats, no less, …
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Gorton Monastery – talks, tours & walks
Historical tours of the Monastery and Gorton with Ed Glinert or Elaine Griffiths (Sundays, noon): New dates to be announced. Manchester History Themed Talks at the Monastery with Ed Glinert (Sundays, noon): New dates to be announced. Please book through the Monastery (e-mail events@themonastery.co.uk) as these talks are becoming extremely popular! Meet: Gorton Monastery (in …
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Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore – It’s A Grave Night Out!
Next tour: Mon 3 September 2018. Meet: Victoria station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. Beware: Headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. This is haunted Manchester at its most heinous and horrible. We warn you not to go too close to Father Ambrose’s hidden skull lest the tortuous …
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Bridgewater Canal
Next tour: Saturday 20 July 2024. Meet: entrance Beetham Tower, Deansgate, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. About the tour Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading canal historian, to explore the waters, banks and history of the Bridgewater Canal, Britain’s first man-made waterway, which saw Manchester launch the industrial revolution in the 1760s. …
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Northern Powerhouse
Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce goods on a scale never before seen. And what goods! Cotton clothes exported to west …
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The Manchester Literary Trail
Next tour: No public dates at the moment. Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, time tbc. Booking: Perfect for a private booking! The three great epic novels set in and around Manchester are Magnolia Street (Louis Golding, 1932), Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood (1933) and Fame is the Spur by Howard Spring (1940). Each is vast, …
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Anthony Burgess’s Manchester
Next walking tour: Tue 15 Oct 2024 Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square, 1pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. He was a polymath and polyglot who chain smoked for England and wrote more words than Dickens, Wells and Trollope combined. Manchester was his city, even though once he had enough …
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Old Graveyards & Burial Grounds of Manchester
Next tour: NO DATES AS YET. Meet: tbc. Booking: Just turn up for this one! please check website a day before the tour just in case the guide has fallen into the crypt. Now where have our churches gone? St Mary Parsonage, St James’s Chinatown, St John’s Granadaland (left), St Peter’s Metrolink – all long …
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Lost Manchester – The Vanished City
Next 2013 tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc. Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they gone? We will visit the site, tell the story, show the pictures. Yes, this is mostly a nostalgic exercise, as we re-create a dear …
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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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