Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s most prolific tour guide and author of Penguin’s legendary Manchester Compendium, on a FREE whistle-stop expert tour of the world’s great industrial city. This is a quick-fire run-down of all the great Manchester sights and sites, with all the most mesmerising and memorable stories. Here’s the route and set-list.

• Emmeline Pankhurst – celebrated suffragette and Tory candidate.

• Central Library – Why does it look like the Pantheon, of London, not Rome!

• The Midland Hotel– where Rolls and Royce did NOT meet.

• Chepstow House – the city’s most beautiful former cotton mill.

• Bridgewater Hall – should have been the Barbirolli Hall.

• The Peterloo Memorial – not the first such tribute.

• The Free Trade Hall – where Manchester pledged support for Lincoln.

• The Ralph Abercrombie pub – where Jubilee Street became Coronation Street.

• The John Rylands Library – home of the world’s oldest piece of the New Testament, but for how long?