Events for March, 2012 | Manchester Walks

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			1	2 City of Culture Manchester Architecture Revealed – Histories Fest special Manchester Architecture Revealed – Histories Fest special 02/03/2012 2:00 pm – 02/03/2012 3:45 pm Merchants’ palaces, Gothic towers, Baroque fantasies and Classical temples: Manchester city centre is lined with architectural splendour, from the soaring spires of Manchester Town Hall to the mathematical purity of…	3 Manchester Architecture Revealed – Histories Fest special Manchester Architecture Revealed – Histories Fest special Royal Exchange & John Rylands Library – Histories Fest special Royal Exchange & John Rylands Library – Histories Fest special 03/03/2012 12:00 pm – 03/03/2012 1:40 pm From Britain’s most spectacular theatre to a library that looks like a cathedral, this is a double tour of two extraordinary Manchester buildings, brought to life by tour guide Ed… The Football History of Manchester – Histories Fest special The Football History of Manchester – Histories Fest special 03/03/2012 3:00 pm – 03/03/2012 5:00 pm The streets of Manchester are awash with football, not just cups, fans and players, but living kicking football history – Man Utd being rescued from bankruptcy by a St Bernard…	4 The Football History of Manchester – Histories Fest special Clock Tower Clock Tower We go beyond the confines of Manchester Town Hall up the soaring clock tower to see the magical metallic machinery move about, to stand behind the huge clock faces, to…
5	6	7	8 Clock Tower Town Hall Murals Town Hall Murals 08/03/2012 1:30 pm – 08/03/2012 3:10 pm John Alker takes a detailed look at Ford Madox Brown’s 12 ingenious and brilliantly detailed panels of Manchester and English history that decorate the extraordinary Great Hall of Manchester Town…	9 Town Hall Murals Town Hall Murals The Manchester Architecture Trail The Manchester Architecture Trail 09/03/2012 1:00 pm – 09/03/2012 3:00 pm Merchants’ palaces, Gothic towers, Baroque fantasies and Classical temples: Manchester city centre is lined with architectural splendour, from the soaring spires of Manchester Town Hall to the mathematical purity of… Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore 09/03/2012 6:00 pm – 09/03/2012 7:40 pm Screaming skulls, headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. It’s A Grave Night Out! Dare, if you will, to visit http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/underground-other-unusual-things/ghost-walks/ for more frightening info!	10 Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore This Is Manchester – THE Walk, THE City This Is Manchester – THE Walk, THE City 10/03/2012 12:00 pm – 10/03/2012 3:00 pm New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you’ve reached before? This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s a best…	11 This Is Manchester – THE Walk, THE City This Is Manchester – THE Walk, THE City Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester Control – Ian Curtis’s Manchester 11/03/2012 12:00 pm – 11/03/2012 1:40 pm We will be honouring the Joy Division singer who captured the metallic greyness of Manchester so expertly. Le Corbusier’s Manchester Le Corbusier’s Manchester 11/03/2012 3:00 pm – 11/03/2012 5:00 pm Sixty-story steel skyscrapers segregating the city into superconcrete sectors. The shock of the new. It nearly happened… Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (“the crow”) wasn’t just the greatest architect…
12 Le Corbusier’s Manchester Le Corbusier’s Manchester Italian Manchester Italian Manchester 12/03/2012 11:00 am – 12/03/2012 12:45 pm The Romans and Italians: what did they ever do for Manchester? Well, they built a fort at Castlefield, a straight road that is now Deansgate, gave us a form of… Russian Manchester Russian Manchester 12/03/2012 2:30 pm – 12/03/2012 4:15 pm Stravinsky conducted here, Joe Sunlight built here, Yuri Gagarin posed outside the Town Hall after walking above here (in space), bits of the Communist Manifesto were researched here, and the city…	13 Russian Manchester Russian Manchester Town Hall Murals Town Hall Murals 13/03/2012 11:00 am – 13/03/2012 1:00 pm Ed Glinert takes a detailed look at Ford Madox Brown’s 12 brilliantly detailed panels of Manchester and English history that decorate the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall. This is… Statues, Signs & Symbols Statues, Signs & Symbols 13/03/2012 2:00 pm – 13/03/2012 4:00 pm Sculpted stone statues; secluded and secret signs and symbols; immense impressive icons. They’re everywhere on the streets of central Manchester. Ed Glinert leads this trail around Manchester’s stone poses, from…	14 Statues, Signs & Symbols Psychogeographic Manchester Psychogeographic Manchester 14/03/2012 2:30 pm – 14/03/2012 4:00 pm “Psychogeographic” has become a new buzz word, but it’s simply a way of unlocking the secret code that has formed the lay-out of the city and the shape of its…	15 Psychogeographic Manchester Literary Manchester Literary Manchester 15/03/2012 1:30 pm – 15/03/2012 3:20 pm In the beginning was the word, and the word eventually came to Elizabeth Gaskell, Howard Spring, Louis Golding, Harrison Ainsworth, Thomas de Quincey and Anthony Burgess. Hear how Manchester’s greatest…	16 Literary Manchester Literary Manchester John Rylands Library & St Ann’s Church John Rylands Library & St Ann’s Church 16/03/2012 10:30 am – 16/03/2012 12:15 pm From Manchester’s only Georgian church to a library that looks like a cathedral, brought to life by tour guide Ed Glinert, author of The Manchester Compendium and the religious gazetteer Martyrs & Mystics, to… Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore 16/03/2012 6:00 pm – 16/03/2012 7:40 pm Screaming skulls, headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. It’s A Grave Night Out!	17	18 Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore The Irish in Manchester The Irish in Manchester 18/03/2012 3:00 pm – 18/03/2012 4:30 pm Brendan Behan: genius writer or terrorist? Larkin, Allen and O’ Brien: murderers or martyrs? No wonder Karl Marx urged Britain to solve the Irish question before choosing socialism. But don’t…
19	20	21 The Irish in Manchester Hangman’s Manchester Hangman’s Manchester 21/03/2012 2:30 pm – 21/03/2012 4:15 pm Manchester can boast of having many great feats of history: the first computer, the splitting of the atom, the first industrial city and the place where the last hanging in…	22	23 Hangman’s Manchester Hangman’s Manchester Hangman’s Manchester Cathedral & Chetham’s Cathedral & Chetham’s 23/03/2012 10:30 am – 23/03/2012 12:20 pm The centre of mediaeval Manchester, an ancient place of worship and Europe’s oldest library. The origins of the Cathedral are obscure but there was probably a Saxon church on the… Lost Manchester – The Vanished City Lost Manchester – The Vanished City 23/03/2012 2:30 pm – 23/03/2012 4:15 pm Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they all gone? We have the pictures to prove it wasn’t all a dream! Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore 23/03/2012 6:00 pm – 23/03/2012 7:40 pm Screaming skulls, headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. It’s A Grave Night Out!	24	25 Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore Engels & Marx – Part 1 Engels & Marx – Part 1 25/03/2012 11:00 am – 25/03/2012 12:40 pm By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. They were Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels,… Engels & Marx – Part 2 Engels & Marx – Part 2 25/03/2012 2:00 pm – 25/03/2012 4:00 pm By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. They were Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels…
26 Engels & Marx – Part 2 Engels & Marx – Part 2 Knutsford in the Spring Knutsford in the Spring 26/03/2012 11:30 am – 26/03/2012 1:30 pm It’s classy Cranford in Chi-Chi Cheshire. It’s the home town of Mrs Gaskell. It’s Tatton, General Patton and the maddest architecture in the North-West. This is a sumptuous tour laced with… Town Hall in the Evening Town Hall in the Evening 26/03/2012 5:30 pm – 26/03/2012 7:30 pm When the BBC’s Antiques Roadshow wanted to know about the history of Manchester Town Hall for their recently shown extravaganza, they approached New Manchester Walks’ Ed Glinert (author of “The Manchester Compendium”). When The…	27 Town Hall in the Evening Town Hall in the Evening The Pre-Raphaelites & the Art Treasures of Manchester The Pre-Raphaelites & the Art Treasures of Manchester 27/03/2012 11:00 am – 27/03/2012 1:00 pm They were “The Brotherhood”, Britain’s most spectacular school of art, whose legacy fills Manchester Art Gallery. These are some of the most remarkable and imaginative paintings in Britain, for what… Grand Canals of Manchester (East to Sportcity) Grand Canals of Manchester (East to Sportcity) 27/03/2012 2:30 pm – 27/03/2012 4:30 pm Manchester is a city built by the water and made by the water; and right by the city centre the waters fork as the canals head to the old industrial…	28 Grand Canals of Manchester (East to Sportcity) Grand Canals of Manchester (East to Sportcity) Eccentric Manchester Eccentric Manchester 28/03/2012 11:00 am – 28/03/2012 12:30 pm Why did thousands flee Market Street on Christmas Eve 1940? How did a white van end up on the top of the Arrndale Centre in 1996? This is a city… The 1940 WW2 Blitz The 1940 WW2 Blitz 28/03/2012 2:30 pm – 29/03/2012 4:20 pm Hundreds dead, thousands injured, the Royal Exchange bombed, the Cathedral devastated, the Free Trade Hall wrecked, Manchester Blitzed. Seventy-one years on, we look back at one of the blackest periods…	29 The 1940 WW2 Blitz The 1940 WW2 Blitz The 1940 WW2 Blitz 28/03/2012 2:30 pm – 29/03/2012 4:20 pm Hundreds dead, thousands injured, the Royal Exchange bombed, the Cathedral devastated, the Free Trade Hall wrecked, Manchester Blitzed. Seventy-one years on, we look back at one of the blackest periods…	30 The 1940 WW2 Blitz The 1940 WW2 Blitz Manchester Music Tour Manchester Music Tour 30/03/2012 1:00 pm – 30/03/2012 3:00 pm Forget Memphis and the Mersey, Manchester is Music City, a factory of superior song-making and stirring soundscapes courtesy of The Smiths, Joy Division, The Fall, Buzzcocks, John Cooper Clarke, Oasis, New Order,… Along The Canal Pub Walk – In And Out Of The Drink Along The Canal Pub Walk – In And Out Of The Drink 30/03/2012 6:00 pm – 30/03/2012 8:00 pm By the water’s edge Manchester is brighter and livelier. There’s a gleam on the water and a glint in the barmaid’s eye. And of course nothing whips up a thirst…	31