Walks & Tours
Liverpool’s Wonderful Waterfront
Next tour is on Zoom: Wednesday 23 June 2021, 8pm. 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 …
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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 walking tour: Friday 30 July, 6pm. 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 nasty stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as well as the odd decapitation, hanging …
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Manchester News
- 76 Years Since the Atom Bomb – the Manchester Connection
This is one of the greatest stories you will ever read about Manchester. It’s so riveting, so enthralling, none of the media in Manchester will print it! The Manchester Evening News, obsessed with celebrity nonsense, violence and tat, said no. So did The Mill (I’m not woke enough or young enough). It’s too serious for I Love Manchester, while Manchester Confidential’s Jonathan Schofield instigated a senseless 50-year spat with me, Ed Glinert, which is now in its 20th or 30th year; I forget which. In case you’re wondering why I’m so confident it’s because I’ve written high-class books for Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins, Emons and Bloomsbury. If you want to immerse yourself in a remarkable story, read on.
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