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Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards (on Hallowe’en)
Next walking tour: Tuesday 31 October 2024 (Hallowe’en), 5.30 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap. 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 … Continue reading
Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess
Next tour: Bank Holiday Monday 26 May 2025. Meet: At the Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Come and drink in a cocktail of excess and revelry drunk by those overdosing … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
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
Anthony Burgess’ Manchester
Next walking tour: Tue 15 Oct 2024. Manchester Literature Festival tours. Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square, 1pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. He was a polymath and polyglot who chain smoked for England and … Continue reading
