Weird and Wonderful
Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards
Next tour: Thursday 8 October 2020, 5.30pm. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (on top of the old graveyard). Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Enter, if you dare, a nether world of murder, assassination, hanging, homicide, regicide, talking corpses and some really nasty stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as …
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Southern Cemetery
Next tour: Sunday 13 December 2020, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials), 245 Barlow Moor Road (Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 8 minutes walk away). Please don’t Go To: The Crematorium, Nell Lane… *** New Manchester Walks will take you around Southern Cemetery, final resting …
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Secret History of Manchester
Next tour on Zoom: Sunday 7 March 2021, 2.30pm. Meet: On your computer! Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 40 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon layer of other histories, …
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Victorian Diseases
Next tour: No dates until the guide recovers from typhus fever. Private Booking: Please contact us from your convalescent home. *** Mill fever, typhus, typhoid, cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever … and something even worse from drinking water with tadpoles and dead rats in it. It’s a wonder anyone made it out the Victorian century alive. …
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The Horrors of Eating, Drinking & Living in Victorian Manchester
**THIS TOUR IS No. 1 ON TRIPEADVISOR!** Next tour: Tuesday 29 September 2020, if the guide manages to finish porking his way through that plate of cow pie. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Horrors? Most certainly. Towards the end of the 19th century the Ministry of Health conducted a survey of …
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Hangman’s Manchester
Next tour: No public dates. Private Tours: Please send an s.a.e. to Mr. Albert Pierrepoint, Landlord, The Help The Poor Struggler alehouse, 303 Manchester Road, Oldham. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. Manchester can boast of being the city where the last hanging took place, that of Gwynne Owen Evans at Strangeways prison on Thursday 13 …
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City of the Dead/Bring Out the Bodies
Next public tour: Wed 21 December 2016. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (on top of the old graveyard), 6pm. Ideal: for a private booking…if you want your group to have nightmares. Tragic deaths. Accidental deaths. Hoax deaths. Bloody deaths. Death by hanging. Death by shooting. Murders. Assassinations. Instant death. Slow, tortuous …
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Spies and Spying
Next tour: No dates will be set until that guy from MI9 stops following me around Manchester. Meet: Somewhere in Manchester. We will let you know using our secret pigeon service. Beware: Guides who may not be guides. Fellow walkers who may not be fellow walkers. Tour locations that aren’t tour locations. End: Citing diplomatic …
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Strangeways
Next tour is on Zoom: Sunday 7 March 2021, 11.30am. Meet: On your computer. Yours; not the bloke next door’s. Booking: If you’d like to go to Strangeways, the law will help you. Alternatively, just follow the orders from the guv’nor below. Oh, alright: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Bring: Bucket for slopping …
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Manchester News
- Britain’s Greatest Prime Ministers – and the Worst!
* Ed Glinert’s hilarious trawl through the dodgy denizens of No. 10.
* Thu 1 April, 5.30pm, on eventbrite.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.
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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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