Places: Ancoats to Worsley
Marple and the Peak Forest
Next tour: Sunday 2 August 2021. Meet: outside Romiley Station, 12.15pm. Cost: £10.50 booking in advance. £10 cash on the day, £15 for two cash on the day. What you need to know: If you are coming on the tour and paying cash, please let us know in advance! e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com Booking: Please press here …
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Ashton-under-Lyne
• Next tour: No dates yet as we did it twice in 2017. • Meet: Ashton Metrolink station, time tbc. In the far far east of Manchester they do things differently. Two hundred years ago a ranting prophet called John Wroe set up his Christian Israelite church and declared Ashton to be the “new Jerusalem”. In …
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Salford: Chapel Street & The Crescent
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 there are signs that it is fighting back. As for The Crescent, here can be …
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Hebden Bridge & Heptonstall
Next tour: We had a great walk in the rain in Wednesday 30 September 2020. Hopefully the next one will be crispy dry. No date yet. Meet: Just outside Hebden Bridge station. Booking: to book privately, please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Nestling in the Calder Valley, wired with wild waterways, is the idyllic village of Hebden Bridge, so …
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Haworth: The Ghosts of Wuthering Heights
Next walking tour: 3pm, Sunday 18 June 2023 Meet: Haworth Steam Railway Station. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “…My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a …
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Liverpool
Next tours: • On the Waterfront, Tuesday 12 March 2019, 12 noon, from the Town Hall front entrance. • The Hidden Gems of Liverpool, Wednesday 24 April 2019, 11.30am, from the Ken Dodd statue, Lime Street station. John, Paul, George, Ringo & Pete Best; Bessy, Degsy & Arthur Askey; Bazza & Shanks; Ken Dodd’s Dad’s …
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Alderley Edge
Next tour: 2019. To be arranged. Meet: Alderley Edge station, time tbc. Join Steve Bourne for a lovingly long trek through this verdant, woody, colourful Cheshire setting, complete with local stories of fact and folklore: from the Bronze age to 21st century celebrities, with King Arthur, the Druids, copper-mining Romans, the Jacobite army and the …
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Lindow Moss
Next tours: Sunday 12 August 2018. Meet: Wilmslow Station, 1pm. Put on your sturdy footwear to join our resident guide Steve Bourne for a walk through Wilmslow, followed by a spot of “bog-trotting” around Lindow Moss – a place made famous by the discovery of the “Lindow Man” in the mid-1980s. Dating back to the …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, 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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