Next FREE tour: Wed 18 Oct 2023 during the Manchester Literature Festival. Meet: Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Private bookings: To book privately, please phone Ed Glinert on 07769 29 8068. What a review on TripAdvisor! I booked myself and some Irish/Canadian visitors on a special Charles …
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Next Walking tour: NO DATES YET Meet: Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens. Booking:  Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now sell for millions. He called himself a “simple man”, but he was the strangest of fellows. He never left the British Isles, …
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Most scientists do well to dominate thinking in one discipline; John Dalton triumphed in three. Arriving in Manchester in 1793 to teach maths, he engaged in pioneering work into the very nature of matter at the Literary & Philosophy Society’s headquarters on George Street (destroyed in the second world war) and there calculated that the …
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There was Oscar’s, the Brown Bull, Slack Alice’s and Edwardia – Manchester clubs, pubs, night time venues and boutiques. Somehow, amongst all the high-living and fast rolling there was time for the odd football match. And when he played…whew! In his second ever match, Boxing Day 1963 v. Burnley, he left full back John Angus …
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Next tour: During the 2023 Manchester Literature Festival, date to be announced. Meet: St Ann’s Church, time tbc Booking:  The story so far: Elizabeth Gaskell was born Elizabeth Stevenson in Chelsea and raised in Knutsford. She worked in Manchester, combatting poverty and ignorance, spreading the word about non-comformist Christianity and devising fiendish literary plots. Gaskell …
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  Benjamin Disraeli: 19th century prime minister and celebrated author. Ah, the days when the most powerful politicians could, unlike Gordon Brown, segue words into sentences that shook and stirred the soul rather than mangled the English language. Disraeli, promoter of “One Nation” Toryism, came to Manchester on many occasions, speaking at literary soirees and …
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Ed Glinert will be giving a Zoom talk for Trafford Libraries on the three greats at 2pm, Wednesday 5 July 2023. George Best was the greatest player ever to come out of the British Isles. A mercurial winger, a dazzling dribbler, a magician, a maverick. As the saying goes: “Maradona good; Pelé better; George Best”. Denis …
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Next free walking tour: Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Booking:   Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t invent the computer! He should have, in the 1940s, but didn’t have the spare parts to do so. When he discovered to his chagrin that mathematicians at Manchester University had beaten …
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Next tour: Please contact John Alker. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street. Booking: *** 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 series of impressionist views of Manchester; the fogs, the smogs, the industrial haze of …
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