Category Archives: Walks & Tours
Elizabeth Gaskell Coach Tour
Meeting place to be confirmed Description to follow.
Ardwick – The Good, The Bad and The Downright Ugly
Next tour: Sun 19 Feb 2012. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Ardwick was once so desirable a suburb, the richest and most powerful men in Manchester (Nathan Mayer Rothschild, John Rylands) sought it out for their mansions. Okay that … Continue reading
Computer Says: “Yes!” – Science in Manchester
Next tour: Fri 19 October 2018 (during the Science Festival). Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, 11.30am. Bring: A one-atom thick slice of graphene. End: Somewhat closer to gaining a Nobel Prize. “The switch was pressed and immediately the spots on the display tube … Continue reading
The Mad Inventors of Manchester
Tour superseded by “10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World”. Please see relevant page.
John Dalton – Father of Science
Next tour: Sat 20 October 2018 (Science Festival tours). Meet: Art Gallery entrance, 2.30pm. Most scientists do well to dominate thinking in one discipline; John Dalton came up with three. Arriving in Manchester in 1793 to teach maths, he engaged … Continue reading
Alan Turing – Tortured Genius of the Computer Age
Next free walking tour: Saturday the 21st of June 2025, 11.30 a.m. Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t … Continue reading
Churchill vs. Mosley
Next tours. No public dates. Meet: tbc. One was a maverick who served time in jail; the other was the Labour Party’s greatest hope for socialism. One deployed poison gas against the Iraqis; the other was supported by Nye Bevan, architect … Continue reading
Victorian Manchester (Hell Is A City)
Next tour: Thu 29 Sep 2016. Meet: Oxford Road station, 11am. Rivers clogged with excrement and decomposing bodies. Rampant crime. Factories vomiting toxic plumes and changing the colour of the horizon for miles around. Is this Manchester today? Not quite. … Continue reading
Tory Manchester
Next tour: Maybe to kick-off the 2023 Tory conference in Manchester. Meet: Booking: George the Chancellor said on Wednesday 3 December 2014: “Our ambition is to build a northern powerhouse as a complement to the strength of our … Continue reading
Suffragette City/The Pankhursts
Next Tour: Saturday 14 June 2025, 2pm. Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. It is now more than a hundred and five years (1 December 1919) since a woman … Continue reading
