Category Archives: Walks & Tours
Madchester: Tales of Rock n Roll Excess
Next tour: Bank Holiday Monday 26 May 2025. Meet: At the Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Come and drink in a cocktail of excess and revelry drunk by those overdosing … Continue reading
Marx & Engels in Manchester
Marx & Engels pub tour: Friday 20 June 2025. Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 6pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Follow in the footsteps of Karl Marx, inventor of … Continue reading
William Shakespeare’s Manchester
Next tour: Fri 26 October 2018. Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, 2.30pm. Booking: Soon with eventbrite. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive with … Continue reading
Poetry
Next tour: Fri 26 October 2018. Meet: Queen Victoria statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 11.30am. Words, phrases, ideas, claims, injunctions, entreaties, accusations, threats, memories…“Tho’ much is taken, much abides…which in old days Mov’d earth and heaven”. We honour the greatest writers – Tennyson (that’s … Continue reading
William Shakespeare
Date: No dates yet. Meet: Entrance, John Rylands Library, time tbc. Booking: Not yet. This is an ingenious new tour dedicated to a man who probably never came to Manchester. But why should that matter? The city centre is alive … Continue reading
Thomas de Quincey
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: Born in a hotel on Manchester’s Cross Street in 1785, Thomas De Quincey is perhaps the greatest local-born writer in Manchester history. Well, him and Anthony Burgess. Originally he was plain Thomas Quincey (he … Continue reading
Anthony Burgess’ Manchester
Next walking tour: Tue 15 Oct 2024. Manchester Literature Festival tours. Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square, 1pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. He was a polymath and polyglot who chain smoked for England and … Continue reading
MANCHESTER MUSIC COACH TOUR
You’ve heard the songs, seen the groups, played the records…now visit the sights and hear the stories where Manchester music history was made on a music bus tour …
Our set list includes most of the following:
* The Hacienda * Salford Lads’ Club * The Ritz * The Cemetery Gates
* The Boardwalk * Free Trade Hall * The Church of the Holy Name
* Sifter’s record shop * The house where the Smiths were born * The original Factory Records HQ
* This is a 3-hour tour, starting from Albert Square opposite the Town Hall.
Please book with eventbrite. Press “Continue Reading” and click.
* Sun 14 Jan, 11am. Continue reading
