Next tours: Sun 12 Feb 2012, Sun 20 May 2012. Meet: Gorton Monastery (in the cafe), 11.30am. Cost: £7.50 (which mostly goes to the Monastery).   Gorton was once the workshop of the world. Here the first locomotives taking trains across South Africa, New Zealand and Palestine were built at Gorton Tank, Gorton Foundry, Beyer Peacock. …
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Next free tour: Saturday 15 April 2023. Meet: At Salford Quays Metrolink stop, 11a.m. Booking: Please press here to register with Eventbrite. Huge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, as deep as Suez, as powerful as the Panama. Here a new city has …
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Next tours: The summer 2015 one has gone. More dates will be announced soon. Meet: Lass O’ Gowrie pub, Charles Street Bring: Good shoes and a sense of exploration. There are three visible rivers in city centre Manchester: the Irwell, the Irk and the Medlock. And it’s the Medlock that we’ll be investigating. The river that …
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Next tour: Mon 26 March 2012. Meet: Knutsford station, 11.30am “The lunch–a hot savoury mutton-chop, and a little of the cold loin sliced and fried–was now brought in. Every morsel of this last dish was finished, to Martha’s great gratification.”   It’s one of the most perfect and picturesque villages in England. Classy Cranford in …
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Next tour: Friday 21st of July 2023. Meet: Outside the Science and Industry Museum, Lower Byrom Street. Cost: Free with tip at the end, if you think it was worth it! Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. It’s one of the world’s greatest waterways; as deep as Suez, as wide as Panama, and it …
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Next public tour: probably autumn 2015. Hulme, the suburb immediately south-west of the city centre, became the setting for one of the most extraordinary social engineering-cum-architectural projects Britain has ever seen in the late 20th century. It was demolished, destroyed and rebuilt twice. At the beginning of the 20th century the population density was around 150 …
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Next tour: Sun 19 Feb 2012. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. 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 two hundred years ago. Things have changed since. The rich folk have gone. The …
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