Walks & Tours
Liverpool’s Wonderful Waterfront
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 waterside urban panorama in the country, a mesmerising vista of deep dark docks, baroque towers, skyscraping elevations, exquisite stone palaces and breathtaking brick warehouses. It’s Liverpool by the sea…not just Pierhead, the Three …
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Smiths-Morrissey Coach Tour: All the Manchester Area Sites & Stories
This is the Smiths-Morrissey Coach Tour: All the Manchester Area Sites & Stories On Zoom * Sat 19 December, 11am-12.30pm . * Meet: On your computer. * Cost: £7.50 * Booking: On eventbrite You’ve heard the records, lived the life, sang along to the songs, given up meat, cut your hair like Johnny Marr, bought …
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Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards (on Hallowe’en)
Next walking tour: Tuesday 31 October 2023 (Hallowe’en), 6 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap. Booking: Please book here with Eventbrite. Enter, if you dare, a nether world of murder, assassination, hanging, homicide, regicide, talking corpses and some really nasty stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as well as the odd decapitation, …
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Friedrich Engels’ Manchester
Next FREE walk: Saturday 2 December 2023 (for Engels’ 203rd birthday) Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of that phenomenally popular political system – communism – and Friedrich Engels, the German cotton …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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