Welcome to New Manchester Walks!
You’re through to New Manchester Walks, the city’s premier walks outfit,
and our line-up of unusual and exciting
guided tours, bringing Manchester alive.
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The first signs of the Manchester spring are here: snowdrops in Sackville Gardens and the release of New Manchester Walks’ March to May leaflet. Out now and available in all good tourist attractions, libraries and tourist information centres, the leaflet has a new look devised by the design team at
NMW Towers (a metaphysical location based somewhere between the Portico Library and the late lamented Plaza curry house). Walks are now laid out day by day, rather than walk by walk or section by section, so that you can see at a glance what’s on offer on a Monday afternoon or a Sunday morning.
The old favourites – Underground Manchester, Town Hall Tour, The Dark Side of Manchester – remain and there are a number of new features. On Saturdays at noon “Uncover Manchester” looks at different aspects of city life with a changing programme that includes gems like “Secret Manchester”, “Eccentric Manchester” and the intriguing “The Manchester They Left Behind”. These will start at the Visitor Information Centre which for now is still based by St Peter’s Square Metrolink station but is set to move, probably at the end of May (along with these Saturday at noon walks), to the corner of Parker Street and Portland Street. Yes, the old Brentford Nylons building.
A new highlight on the occasional Wednesday evening, at dusk, is “Tales of the Manchester Dead – It’s A Grave Night Out”. It promises to be a scream with a sideways look at the various ways Manchester folk have joined the choir invisible. Tragic deaths and accidental deaths; hoax deaths and bloody deaths; deaths by hanging, deaths by shooting; instant death and slow tortuous death. Aye, it’s the grim reaper up North!
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Our team of entertaining and enthusiastic tour guides are primed to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the 21st century city – from Coronation Street to Albert Square; from L. S. Lowry to Matt Busby; from the Northern Quarter’s bars to Life on Mars.
Come with us in and out of Manchester Town Hall or to the sights that inspired Lowry; for a lingering look at what was the Hacienda and what are the hippest hangouts in the land; a MOSI through the cobbled streets and brick arches that made Manchester the world’s first industrial city; a spine-tingling delve into the Dark Side of Manchester; a pub crawl in and out of old boozers drenched in history – the Briton’s Protection, Peveril of the Peak, Mother Mac’s – or maybe a sneak look at the Coronation Street set (okay, we can’t get in but our 'Almost' Coronation Street walk is the next best thing!)
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