Category Archives: Pub Walks

Next tour: No dates yet, but we do have plenty of other pub walks. Meet: Malmaison, 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. For decades it was a red-light district and a land of rotting textile workshops by a dirty old canal. In the … Continue reading →

Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. 6pm  

Since the wonderful Welcome pub closed down, we have decided not to run the Victoria Park pub walk, but just do the daytime general Victoria Park walk. Please see elsewhere on website.    

The pub walk has been turned into a day time walk for now. The ’60s were invented in Manchester when George Best arrived at Exchange Station as a raw 15-year-old in July 1961, never having left Northern Ireland before. He … Continue reading →

Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: to be decided. What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well he never came to Manchester, but Marx and Engels did, and so too did “Orator” Hunt, Richard Cobden and the Pankhursts. So let’s drink … Continue reading →

Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Outside the HOME arts centre by 5.30pm. Booking: These are the pubs that time forgot, where Manchester floats on a sea of mild and bitter, and gastro means Holt’s rather than haute cuisine. The … Continue reading →

Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking:   Bring: Money for a few pints. Beware: Keg beers. End: Standing upright still, perhaps, in the New Oxford. Where shall we go? The Round O’ Beef: gone. The Tripedressers’ … Continue reading →

Next tours: No dates set as yet. Private tour: Contact us! Meet: Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street. Wine and song; it goes together. Sometimes there’s a woman in between, but there might just as well be a man. Like Muddy … Continue reading →

Okay, so we can’t sup a pint in the Rovers Return on Shudehill; the Seven Stars, Withy Grove; the Gaping Goose, Shudehill; the Castle & Falcon, Bradshaw Street; or the original Wellington in the Shambles, let alone Tommy Duck’s. But … Continue reading →

No dates as yet. Meeting place: to be confirmed Description: to follow.