Category Archives: Underground & Other Unusual Things

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.   … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →