Category Archives: Walks & Tours
Fear & Loathing In Manchester
Next tour: 8th February 2012 Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street.
Fascist Manchester
Next tour: Wed 11th April 2012 Meet: Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza. Despite its left-wing credentials, Manchester has some shady political connections. The most infamous figure in British fascist history was Oswald Mosley, 1930s leader of the British … Continue reading
Gorton Monastery – talks, tours & walks
Historical tours of the Monastery and Gorton with Ed Glinert or Elaine Griffiths (Sundays, noon): New dates to be announced. Manchester History Themed Talks at the Monastery with Ed Glinert (Sundays, noon): New dates to be announced. Please book through … Continue reading
Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore – It’s A Grave Night Out!
Next tour: Mon 3 September 2018. Meet: Victoria station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. Beware: Headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. This is haunted Manchester at its most heinous and horrible. We … Continue reading
Bridgewater Canal
Next tour: Saturday 20 July 2024. Meet: entrance Beetham Tower, Deansgate, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. About the tour Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading canal historian, to explore the waters, banks and history of the Bridgewater … Continue reading
Northern Powerhouse
Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce … Continue reading
The Manchester Literary Trail
Next tour: No public dates at the moment. Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, time tbc. Booking: Perfect for a private booking! The three great epic novels set in and around Manchester are Magnolia Street (Louis Golding, 1932), Love on the Dole by … Continue reading
Anthony Burgess’s Manchester
Next walking tour: Tue 15 Oct 2024 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 wrote more words than … Continue reading
Old Graveyards & Burial Grounds of Manchester
Next tour: NO DATES AS YET. Meet: tbc. Booking: Just turn up for this one! please check website a day before the tour just in case the guide has fallen into the crypt. Now where have our churches gone? St … Continue reading
Lost Manchester – The Vanished City
Next 2013 tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc. Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they gone? We will visit the site, tell the story, show the pictures. … Continue reading
