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7	8	9	10	11	12	13 Hidden Gems of Manchester John Rylands Library And… John Rylands Library And… 13/01/2019 12:30 pm – 13/01/2019 2:15 pm January 2019: Sunday 13 January 2019, 12.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. The John Rylands Library is one of the world’s greatest libraries – Manchester’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor – thanks…
14	15	16 John Rylands Library And… Manchester’s Most Beautiful Buildings CANCELLED Manchester’s Most Beautiful Buildings CANCELLED 16/01/2019 11:30 am – 16/01/2019 1:15 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Forget that trip to Bath, Brighton or Barcelona when you can follow our guide around the streets of Manchester and marvel at the exquisite Italianate features…	17 Manchester’s Most Beautiful Buildings CANCELLED Manchester’s Most Beautiful Buildings CANCELLED Hidden Gems of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! Hidden Gems of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! 17/01/2019 10:30 am – 17/01/2019 1:00 pm Next tour: Thu 17 January 2019. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 10.30am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. This is a remarkable tour of city sights and sites you always wanted to see but… Spooky Manchester Spooky Manchester 17/01/2019 5:30 pm – 17/01/2019 7:15 pm This tour: Thu 17 January 2019. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (on top of the old graveyard), 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. There are lot of unexplained deaths on this tour, as…	18 Spooky Manchester Spooky Manchester Manchester Central Library Manchester Central Library 18/01/2019 2:30 pm – 18/01/2019 4:15 pm Next tour: Fri 18 January 2019, 2.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Meet: At the Library entrance. Manchester’s magnificent and multi-volumed municipal library re-opened in March 2014 after a multi-million pound refit and… The Formidable Women of Manchester The Formidable Women of Manchester 18/01/2019 5:30 pm – 18/01/2019 7:15 pm This tour: Fri 18 January 2019, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. We pay tribute to the Pankhursts, Annie Horniman, Hannah Mitchell, Enriqueta Rylands, Kathleen Ollerenshaw… To whet your appetite here is…	19 The Formidable Women of Manchester The Formidable Women of Manchester The Peterloo Massacre The Peterloo Massacre 19/01/2019 12:00 pm – 19/01/2019 1:45 pm Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 12 noon. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite here. Our unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author, compiler of the forthcoming Manchester… Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! 19/01/2019 2:30 pm – 19/01/2019 4:15 pm As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next tour: Saturday 19 January 2019, 2.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Meet: at the HOME arts centre, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Whitworth Street West.…	20 Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Alan Turing’s Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! Alan Turing’s Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! 20/01/2019 11:30 am – 20/01/2019 1:00 pm Next tour: Sunday 20 January 2019. Meet: Manchester Museum reception, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 11.30am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. He broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost invented the computer, and was persecuted to a painful… Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! 20/01/2019 2:30 pm – 20/01/2019 4:15 pm The Hacienda Years: Sunday 20 January 2019, 2.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Meet: at the HOME arts centre, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Whitworth Street West. (2 mins walk from Deansgate station). *** Forget…
21	22 Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years !!SOLD OUT!! Jewish Manchester (City Centre Trail) Jewish Manchester (City Centre Trail) 22/01/2019 11:00 am – 22/01/2019 12:45 pm City Centre trail: Please book here with eventbrite and stop kvetching. Don’t worry; you don’t have to be Jewish! So where do we go then? Who’s the gossip about? On the Jewish Manchester… Jewish Manchester (Cheetham Hill trail) Jewish Manchester (Cheetham Hill trail) 22/01/2019 2:00 pm – 22/01/2019 4:00 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Manchester’s Jewish community first appeared in numbers in the late 18th century around the parish church (!). Well, that was the old town, where people lived. Gradually…	23 Jewish Manchester (Cheetham Hill trail) Jewish Manchester (Cheetham Hill trail) Homes of the Rich & Famous Homes of the Rich & Famous 23/01/2019 12:00 pm – 23/01/2019 2:30 pm Next tour: Wed 23 January 2019. Meet: Outside the Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, 12 noon. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. See where the movers and shakers of Manchester history lived, dined, slept… Angel Meadow – Victorian Hell-Hole Angel Meadow – Victorian Hell-Hole 23/01/2019 5:30 pm – 23/01/2019 7:15 pm Please book here with eventbrite. Angel Meadow. Never was a name more inappropriate. This is what made Manchester THE shock city. Victorian hell-hole, cholera-infested ghetto and industrial shanty town. Journalist Angus Bethune Reach called…	24 Angel Meadow – Victorian Hell-Hole Angel Meadow – Victorian Hell-Hole John Rylands Library And… John Rylands Library And… 24/01/2019 2:00 pm – 24/01/2019 3:45 pm January 2019: Thu 24 Jan, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. The John Rylands Library is one of the world’s greatest libraries – Manchester’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor – thanks to… The Secret History of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! The Secret History of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! 24/01/2019 5:30 pm – 24/01/2019 7:15 pm • Thu 24 January 2019, 5.30pm. !!SOLD OUT!! You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 40 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in…	25 The Secret History of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! The Secret History of Manchester !!SOLD OUT!! The 7 Wonders of Manchester The 7 Wonders of Manchester 25/01/2019 11:00 am – 25/01/2019 1:15 pm The glories, grandeur and greatness of the city. These are the Seven Wonders of Manchester; wondrous places, majestic settings, extraordinary stories: the world’s biggest trading room, a Cathedral of Culture,… “Burns Night”. Hear Land O’ Cakes and brither Scots! “Burns Night”. Hear Land O’ Cakes and brither Scots! 25/01/2019 8:00 pm – 25/01/2019 11:55 pm No description has been entered for this event.	26 “Burns Night”. Hear Land O’ Cakes and brither Scots! “Burns Night”. Hear Land O’ Cakes and brither Scots! The Secret History of the Northern Quarter The Secret History of the Northern Quarter 26/01/2019 11:30 am – 26/01/2019 1:15 pm Next tour: * Sat 26 January 2019. * Meet Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 11.30am. * Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, modish Manchester, funky but chic Manchester. It’s the Northern… Ancoats: World Heritage SIte? Ancoats: World Heritage SIte? 26/01/2019 2:30 pm – 26/01/2019 4:30 pm January 2019: Sat 26 Jan, 2.30pm. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. We explore the backstreets and forgotten corners of the world’s first industrial community, converted from…	27 Ancoats: World Heritage SIte? Ancoats: World Heritage SIte? Manchester in 12 Songs Manchester in 12 Songs 27/01/2019 12:00 pm – 27/01/2019 2:00 pm As Ian Curtis sang: “I’ve been waiting for a guide…” Next tour: Sunday 27 January 2019, 12 noon. Meeting point: Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. An ingenious tour… Mark E Smith’s Manchester Mark E Smith’s Manchester 27/01/2019 3:00 pm – 27/01/2019 4:40 pm Next tour: Sunday 27 January 2019. Meet: Queen Victoria statue, Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester, 3pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. A genius, a curmudgeon, an iconoclast, an art terrorist…irascible, irreverent, irredeemable…the late Mark E.…
28	29 Mark E Smith’s Manchester Mark E Smith’s Manchester The Lost Legends of Mediaeval Manchester The Lost Legends of Mediaeval Manchester 29/01/2019 11:00 am – 29/01/2019 12:45 pm Next tour: Tue 29 January 2018, 11am. Meet: Shudehill metrolink stop. Booking: Hear ye, hear ye, book here with ye eventbrite. The first settled community in Manchester was based in what is now Castlefield… Southern Cemetery Tour Southern Cemetery Tour 29/01/2019 2:30 pm – 29/01/2019 4:15 pm This Tour, January 2019: Tue 29 January, 2.30pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. Ed Glinert, author of “London’s Dead” (published by HarperCollins) will take you around Southern Cemetery, Britain’s biggest graveyard, final resting…	30 Southern Cemetery Tour Pre-Raphaelites & the Town Hall Murals (sort of) Pre-Raphaelites & the Town Hall Murals (sort of) 30/01/2019 11:00 am – 30/01/2019 2:00 pm * Wed 30 January 2019, 11am. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. *** * Double tour at Manchester Art Gallery and the Lowry Centre * Please buy a tram ticket in advance. *** This is a…	31 Pre-Raphaelites & the Town Hall Murals (sort of) Pre-Raphaelites & the Town Hall Murals (sort of) The Grand Hotels of Manchester The Grand Hotels of Manchester 31/01/2019 1:30 pm – 31/01/2019 3:30 pm Forget lastminute.com, Please book here with eventbrite. This is a tour echoing with history, rich with romance. We visit the best hotels in Manchester, so meet the Bell Boy bearing the brown… Hell Is A City (Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Ripper…) Hell Is A City (Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Ripper…) 31/01/2019 5:30 pm – 31/01/2019 7:15 pm January 2019 tour: Thu 31 Jan, 5.30pm. Meet: Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. We’ve scraped the very bottom of the barrel, and what’s underneath, to create…