Category Archives: Walks & Tours
Charles Dickens in Manchester
Next tour: Friday 8 November, during the Manchester Literature Festival. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street, 1pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Private bookings: To book privately, please phone Ed Glinert on 07769 29 8068. What a … Continue reading
The Glories of Manchester Architecture
NEXT TOUR The Glories of Manchester Architecture: Tuesday 27th of May 2025. Guide: RIBA judge Ed Glinert. Starts: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** The Builder magazine once declared … Continue reading
Coronation Street
When Julie Goodyear first turned up at Granada to play Bet Lynch in 1966, a friend gave her a lift into Manchester in his van. In the back was a cement mixer. Julie expected the pal to drop her on the main road, but as it was raining he insisted in pulling up outside the TV company’s front entrance on Atherton Street. By an amazing coincidence Pat Phoenix was just getting out of her Rolls Royce at the same time. Pat looked Julie up and down “as if I were a piece of dog dirt on her shoe,” as Julie recalled, and said, “‘Don’t you ever, ever dare to upstage me again, young lady.’” Continue reading
City of Culture
Manchester Man of the mid-19th century wanted to show the world that the place was more than just a forest of smokestack industries and belching chimneys by creating a city of culture; a metropolis where the arts and the glories … Continue reading
The Pre-Raphaelites
Next tour: Wednesday 7 May 2025, 11.30 a.m. Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Only Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide and Arts Society lecturer, can reveal the mysteries and symbolism of the … Continue reading
Manchester Art Gallery
Next tours: See Walks & Tours: “The Pre-Raphaelites” or “The Great Art Treasures of Manchester”. Meet: Art Gallery. “What in the world do you want with art in Manchester? Why can’t you stick to your cotton spinning?” That was the … Continue reading
L. S. Lowry
Next Walking tour: Saturday 21 June 2025 Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose … Continue reading
The Great Art Treasures of Manchester
Next FREE tour: Friday 3 February 2023 Meet: outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Manchester Art Gallery is home to Britain’s greatest collection of Pre-Raphaelite works, and in the streets beyond … Continue reading
Art in Manchester – Lowry and Valette
For now, we’re doing separate Lowry and Valette tours. Please see relevant pages.
Adolphe Valette
Next Tour: When Boris says it’s okay. Booking: With eventbrite. *** His students called him “Mr Monsieur”. His devotees praised his unique vision of Manchester. His legacy is the most important in Manchester’s art history. Adolphe Valette left a mesmerising … Continue reading
