Walks & Tours
Glorious Georgian Liverpool
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. Lovingly created in brick, stone, and the finest oak and mahogany furnishings, Liverpool’s Georgian quarter is the last word in elegant city living with the open waters of the estuary, two cathedrals, two world-famous football teams and …
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Underground Tunnels of Liverpool
Ed Glinert, creator of the highly popular Underground Manchester and London Zooms, hosts this trip below Britain’s greatest maritime city. Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. *** * Disused railway tunnels just tempting the carefree and curious. * The abandoned Mersey road tunnel …
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Hebden Bridge & Heptonstall
Next tour: We had a great walk in the rain in Wednesday 30 September 2020. Hopefully the next one will be crispy dry. No date yet. Meet: Just outside Hebden Bridge station. Booking: to book privately, please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Nestling in the Calder Valley, wired with wild waterways, is the idyllic village of Hebden Bridge, so …
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Haworth: The Ghosts of Wuthering Heights
Next walking tour: 3pm, Sunday 18 June 2023 Meet: Haworth Steam Railway Station. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “…My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a …
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Political Villains of Manchester
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street, time tbc. There have been some bad people in charge of Manchester and Salford over the years – and you, the good people of the twin cities, have been bossed about by them and sometimes even voted for them! We’re talking about Oswald Mosley, leader …
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Political Heroes of Manchester
Next walk: No dates yet. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. You want heroes? Heroes that transcend party politicking and partisanship? Difficult one. Maybe Richard Cobden, Friedrich Engels, Wiliam Gladstone, Sylvia Pankhurst and Paul Robeson. Them and the usual crowd of assorted Trots, liberals and free-thinkers.
The Beatles’ Liverpool
Next FREE walking tour: “The Beatles’ Liverpool” with Mojo’s Ed Glinert: Date: Saturday 2 March 2024, 12 noon. To Commemorate: 60 Years since the filming of A Hard Day’s Night began! Meet: Ken Dodd statue, Lime Street station. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Join the North’s most prolific tour guide, Ed Glinert, …
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Liverpool
Next tours: • On the Waterfront, Tuesday 12 March 2019, 12 noon, from the Town Hall front entrance. • The Hidden Gems of Liverpool, Wednesday 24 April 2019, 11.30am, from the Ken Dodd statue, Lime Street station. John, Paul, George, Ringo & Pete Best; Bessy, Degsy & Arthur Askey; Bazza & Shanks; Ken Dodd’s Dad’s …
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Irish Manchester
Next tour, the Little Ireland Explorer: Friday 17 March during the 2023 Manchester Irish Festival. Meet: Outside HOME, 11.30am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. For 2020, we’re doing it a little differently, exploring Little Ireland as well as focussing on great Irishmen and women who have made their mark on Manchester. Little …
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Manchester in the 1960s
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Malmaison, No. 3 Piccadilly, time tbc. The ’60s were invented in Manchester when George Best arrived at Exchange Station as a raw 15-year-old in July 1961, never having left Northern Ireland before. He requested the taxi driver outside the station to take him to Old Trafford but he was …
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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