Walks & Tours
Liverpool’s Wonderful Waterfront
Next tour is on Zoom: Wed 17 February, 5.30pm. Meet: on your computer, not by the Dockers’ Umbrella! Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. 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 …
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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
Next tour: Thursday 8 October 2020, 5.30pm. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (on top of the old graveyard). 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 stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as …
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- Britain’s Greatest Prime Ministers – and the Worst!
Prime Ministers don’t fight duels anymore, so we believe, but George Canning, foreign secretary, went into battle with Lord Castlereagh on Putney Heath in 1809. Neither died, and Canning later became the shortest-lived PM after only 118 days.
***At around quarter past five on Monday 11 May 1812 PM Spencer Perceval fell down in the lobby of the Palace of Westminster and cried out: “I am murdered!”. Yes, the only time a British prime minister has been assassinated.
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