This tour: Sunday 20 September 2020.
Meet: Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 2.30pm.
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Heading west from Piccadilly, the canals under the city streets flow towards Britain’s grand canal junction at Castlefield where four waterways cross.
This is a spectacular stroll along the waterways of Manchester invoking a host of stories industrial and architectural, anecdotal and incidental.
* 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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