Category Archives: Places: Ancoats to Worsley

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Next walking tour: Sat 1 June 2024, 2pm. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, modish Manchester, funky but chic Manchester. It’s the Northern Quarter. A land … Continue reading →

Next walking tour: Monday 17 March 2025, 11am. Meet: Outside Knutsford Station on Toft Road. (Hopefully the train will be on time!) Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. This is a sumptuous tour laced with character and charisma, … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside The Eighth Day, 111 Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, time tbc. It’s an amazing story. Read on and marvel at the pics below. Hulme became the setting for one of the most extraordinary social engineering-cum-architectural projects … Continue reading →

Next tour: Thursday 5 July. Start: Manchester Museum reception, off Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 11.30am. Ends: The newly-reopened Gaskell House. It’s the biggest centre of learning in Europe – colleges and universities, ivy-clad quads, red-brick labs, dreaming spires, and thousands of students populating … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside Didsbury Village Metrolink stop. Booking: Didsbury is the most desirable suburb in Manchester, free of the legacy of grimy industry, unsympathetic town planning and the detritus of urban life. Many of the grand villas … Continue reading →

Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Greek Church, 400 Bury New Road, M7 4EY. Here’s a new one. “The Long Road to Strangeways: From The Cliff to the Clink”. We start in quaint, olde-worlde Salford, where period lampposts, rambling villas … Continue reading →

Next tour: Castlefield pub walk, Friday 2 August, 6pm. Meet: Beetham Tower Entrance on Deansgate. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Castlefield is not only the Roman birthplace of Manchester, it was also the industrial birthplace of the … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, time tbc. Ardwick was once so desirable a suburb the richest and most powerful men in Manchester (Nathan Mayer Rothschild, John Rylands) sought it out for their mansions. Okay that was … Continue reading →

Next tour: Saturday 2 November 2024  Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, … Continue reading →