Pub Walks
Hidden Manchester Pub Walk
Next tour: no public dates yet. Meet: Briton’s Protection, Great Bridgewater Street, 6pm. Far from the madding crowds are the back-street boozers, twilight alehouses and tucked-away taverns where serious thinking and occasional drinking set Manchester to rights. The Sir Ralph Abercrombie fits the bill for all three descriptions, but we will also find a couple more …
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Football Pub Walk – Booze, Brawls, Babes and Pints of Best
Next tour: No dates yet. Private tour: Ideal for the discerning fan(s)! Meet: time tbc at the Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly (the former Imperial Hotel, where the PFA was founded a hundred years ago). Football is a thirsty business, which is probably why some of the greatest players to grace the game liked to drink…to …
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Coronation Street Pub Walk
Next tour: To be announced. Private Tours: Get in touch. Codename: Gloria Todd. Guide: Willie Eckerslike. Meet: HOME arts centre. Locations visited: The Old Grapes (formerly Liz Dawn’s pub) which has now shut bah; Cropper’s Corner, Castlefield (where Tony Gordon tried to drown the redoubtable Roy); the Ralph Abercrombie, where Coronation Street got its name; St John’s …
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Along The Canal Pub Walk – In And Out Of The Drink
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: outside Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. By the water’s edge Manchester is brighter and livelier. There’s a gleam on the water and a glint in the barmaid’s eye. And of course nothing whips up a thirst quicker than a good walk by some eye-catching sights with a …
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The Manchester Literary Pub Tour
Next tour: No public dates yet. Private Tours: We await your thirsty literary-tuned customers. Start: Outside the Midland Hotel, time tbc. Booking: with eventbrite, when we get dates. “It was the best of pints; it was the the worst of pints.” So begins Charles Dickens’s classic drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities. Indeed the ghosts …
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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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