Weird and Wonderful
Chilling Tales from the Manchester Graveyards
Next walking tour: Friday 30 July, 6pm. 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 nasty stuff. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as well as the odd decapitation, hanging …
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Southern Cemetery
Next walking tour: Friday 10 December 2021, 12 noon. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials), 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 to book with Eventbrite. *** New Manchester Walks will take you around Southern Cemetery, …
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Secret History of Manchester
The next FREE tour: Wed 8 December 2021, 6pm. Meet: Outside Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. 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 …
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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 walking tour: Sunday 5 December 2021, 12 noon. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap. 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 out. End: Somewhere near the guv’nor’s office. …
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Manchester News
- 76 Years Since the Atom Bomb – the Manchester Connection
This is one of the greatest stories you will ever read about Manchester. It’s so riveting, so enthralling, none of the media in Manchester will print it! The Manchester Evening News, obsessed with celebrity nonsense, violence and tat, said no. So did The Mill (I’m not woke enough or young enough). It’s too serious for I Love Manchester, while Manchester Confidential’s Jonathan Schofield instigated a senseless 50-year spat with me, Ed Glinert, which is now in its 20th or 30th year; I forget which. In case you’re wondering why I’m so confident it’s because I’ve written high-class books for Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins, Emons and Bloomsbury. If you want to immerse yourself in a remarkable story, read on.
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