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Left-Wing Manchester – From German Fred to Red Ed
Next tours: This tour has now been subsumed into the Marx & Engels, Pankhursts and Peterloo tours. Bring: A copy of Clause IV. More apt than Mao’s Little Red Book. How apt that the People’s History museum is located in Manchester on the left bank (sic) of the River Irwell. But why are there more …
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Manchester in 10 Songs
As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, time tbc. Booking: Private tour: Please contact New Manchester Walks The sounds of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, the Fall, Elbow, Joy Division, Bob Dylan, John Cooper Clarke… We will walk in search …
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Manchester in 10 Architects
Next Tour: No dates yet, but the Glories of Manchester Architecture is on Friday the 19th of May 2023 at noon from outside the Midland Hotel. Booking: With eventbrite. Waterhouse, Worthington. Walters, Wood, Wilson, Womersley…and those are just the Ws. We will walk around the city, admiring the key buildings, citing the great and not-so-great architects. Waterhouse is of course …
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10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World
Next tour is on Zoom with Trafford Libraries: Tuesday 1 November 2022, 2pm. Meet: on your computer. Booking: Please see Trafford Libraries website. Manchester invented the modern world, for this was the first city of the industrial revolution, and its inhabitants have given society some of its greatest creations. These are the ones we detail on …
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Manchester in XI Footballers
We’ve only just added this to our repertoire! We’ll have a route, a date and a description up and running, quicker than a Garry Birtles debut goal.
On The Waterfront: Peerless Pierhead
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. It’s the greatest urban panorama in the country, a mesmerising vista of baroque towers, skyscraping elevations, exquisite stone palaces and breathtaking brick warehouses. It’s Liverpool by the sea…Pierhead…not just Three Graces but the Art Deco marvel that …
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Glorious Georgian Liverpool
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. Lovingly created in brick, stone, and the finest oak and mahogany furnishings, Liverpool’s Georgian quarter is the last word in elegant city living with the open waters of the estuary, two cathedrals, two world-famous football teams and …
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Underground Tunnels of Liverpool
Ed Glinert, creator of the highly popular Underground Manchester and London Zooms, hosts this trip below Britain’s greatest maritime city. Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. *** * Disused railway tunnels just tempting the carefree and curious. * The abandoned Mersey road tunnel …
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Hebden Bridge & Heptonstall
Next tour: We had a great walk in the rain in Wednesday 30 September 2020. Hopefully the next one will be crispy dry. No date yet. Meet: Just outside Hebden Bridge station. Booking: to book privately, please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Nestling in the Calder Valley, wired with wild waterways, is the idyllic village of Hebden Bridge, so …
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Haworth: The Ghosts of Wuthering Heights
Next walking tour: 3pm, Sunday 18 June 2023 Meet: Haworth Steam Railway Station. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “…My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a …
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