Category Archives: Sunday Explorers

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.” … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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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 … Continue reading →