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Industry

Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce … Continue reading

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Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards (on Hallowe’en)

Next walking tour: Friday 31 October 2025 (Hallowe’en). Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap, 6pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Enter, if you dare, a nether world of murder, assassination, hanging, homicide, regicide, talking corpses and some really nasty … Continue reading

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Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess

Next tour (1) Saturday 21 March 2026, 11.30am. Meet: Outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Next tour (2) Thursday 4 June 2026, 6pm. 50th Anniversary of the Pistols at the Lesser Free … Continue reading

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William Shakespeare’s Manchester

Next tour: Fri 26 October 2018. Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, 2.30pm. Booking: Soon with eventbrite. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive with … Continue reading

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Poetry

Next tour: Fri 26 October 2018. Meet: Queen Victoria statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 11.30am. Words, phrases, ideas, claims, injunctions, entreaties, accusations, threats, memories…“Tho’ much is taken, much abides…which in old days Mov’d earth and heaven”. We honour the greatest writers – Tennyson (that’s … Continue reading

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Wigan

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Heaton Park

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Liverpool in 12 Songs

Next tour is on Zoom: Sunday 18 April 2021, 2.30pm.  Meet: on your computer! Booking: Please press here to book with evenbrite. Only 12 songs? We will tour the city finding the locations and telling the stories that inspired some … Continue reading

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William Shakespeare

Date: No dates yet. Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, time tbc. Booking: Not yet. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive … Continue reading

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Thomas de Quincey

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: Born in a hotel on Manchester’s Cross Street in 1785, Thomas De Quincey is perhaps the greatest local-born writer in Manchester history. Well, him and Anthony Burgess. Originally he was plain Thomas Quincey (he … Continue reading

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