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Roman Manchester & Castlefield

Start:
28/03/2020 11:00 am
End:
28/03/2020 12:45 pm
Cost:
11 obols
Venue:
Outside Deansgate railway station
Address:
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orner Deansgate/Whitworth Street West, Manchester, United Kingdom, M1 6FU

Next tour: Saturday 28 March 2020, 11am.
Meet: Beetham Tower Entrance on Deansgate.
Booking: Please press here to book with eventbritus.

What you need to know
: Please bring typical Roman lunch: snails fattened on milk, peacocks’ brains and flamingos’ tongues.
What you need to remember: Sic Transit Omnibus Superbus.
Cost:
11 obols.

That word: “Manchester”. Where does it come from?

Forget what Jeanette Winterson said on Radio 4. It’s nothing to do with the Roman “Mamucium” (place of the breast-shaped hill).

On this ancient walk we explore Manchester from the earliest days – before the Romans – to the arrival of the invading force from southern Europe with their pagan gods and Latin homework primers and their role in creating Mamucium, Mancestre and … Manchester.

The only block of remaining wall in Manchester. Will we find it on our tour?

The only block of remaining wall in Manchester. Will we find it on our tour?

 

 


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