Next tour: Mon 3 September 2018. Meet: Victoria station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. Beware: Headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. This is haunted Manchester at its most heinous and horrible. We warn you not to go too close to Father Ambrose’s hidden skull lest the tortuous …
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Next tour: NO DATES AS YET. Meet: tbc. Booking: Just turn up for this one! please check website a day before the tour just in case the guide has fallen into the crypt. Now where have our churches gone? St Mary Parsonage, St James’s Chinatown, St John’s Granadaland (left), St Peter’s Metrolink – all long …
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Next 2013 tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc. Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they gone? We will visit the site, tell the story, show the pictures.         Yes, this is mostly a nostalgic exercise, as we re-create a dear …
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Next tour is on Zoom: 11am, Good Friday, 2nd April 2021. Meet: on your computer. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Is God a Catholic, a Protestant, a Jew or none of these? Probably not an atheist and by definition can’t be an agnostic. If He or She or It is, say, a Protestant (having …
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No dates yet. For a private booking, please contact New Manchester Walks. Meeting place to be confirmed Description to follow.

Eccentric Manchester or “John Dee, Dalton, Deacon, De Quincey & Hanging Ditch”  Next tour: No public dates. It can be booked privately, for 1 April (of course!). Start: Midland Hotel.   Why did hundreds of people flee in a panic from Market Street on Christmas Eve 1941? How did a white van end up on top of …
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Next tour: No dates for the full cholera tour yet. To book a private tour – ideal for historical societies, schools etc who want a walking tour with a difference! – please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com Symptoms: Should you succumb to cholera, this is what might ensue: vomiting, diarrhoea and sweating. Death can occur within hours of the first …
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This tour: Saturday 15 June 2023, 11am. Meet: Outside Selfridge’s, Exchange Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. One myth we will shatter is that the pillar box that stands on the site now is the same pillar box! Another myth is that the bomb was definitely the work of the IRA. The …
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