Category Archives: Weird and Wonderful
Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards (on Hallowe’en)
Next walking tour: Tuesday 31 October 2024 (Hallowe’en), 5.30 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap. 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 … Continue reading
Southern Cemetery
Next tour: Sunday the 20th of July 2025. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials of 245 Barlow Moor Road).(Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 10 minutes walk away). Please don’t go to: The Crematorium, Nell Lane… Booking: Please press here … Continue reading
Secret History of Manchester
Next tour: Sunday the 13th of June 2025, 12 noon. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Strangeways
Next tour: Saturday 12 July 2025. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap for a 12 noon start. 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 … Continue reading
