Town Hall and the Main Buildings
John Rylands Library
Next tour: Friday 27 March. Meet: St Ann’s Church, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. *** The only way to truly understand the magic of what is the No. 1 Manchester Attraction on Trip Advisor is on our regular tour. This is more than a tour of one of the world’s …
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Manchester Town Hall Tour (on Zoom)
Next tour: Tuesday 27 April 2021, 8.00pm. Meet: On your computer! Booking: Please press here to book on eventbrite. *** Manchester Town Hall – the full tour on Zoom! Yes, while England’s greatest town hall is closed for renovations (reopening 2024), come with us on this ingenious alternative. Ed Glinert, who has conducted more actual …
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Manchester News
- Britain’s Greatest Prime Ministers – and the Worst! The perfect talk for your group with Ed Glinert
* Ed Glinert’s hilarious trawl through the dodgy denizens of No. 10.
Prime Ministers don’t fight duels anymore, so we believe, but George Canning, foreign secretary, went into battle with Lord Castlereagh on Putney Heath in 1809. Neither died, and Canning later became the shortest-lived PM after only 118 days.
At around quarter past five on Monday 11 May 1812 PM Spencer Perceval fell down in the lobby of the Palace of Westminster and cried out: “I am murdered!”. Yes, the only time a British prime minister has been assassinated.
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