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Welcome to ManchesterWelcome to Manchester
Manchester Uncovered
Manchester Uncovered
03/05/2013 11:00 am – 03/05/2013 1:00 pm
John Alker takes you around the city on a tour of Manchester’s greatest sites and sights.
This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester Uncovered; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s…
The Co-op & Manchester
The Co-op & Manchester
03/05/2013 1:30 pm – 03/05/2013 3:15 pm
“Good with food”, ethical banking, the Rochdale Pioneers, the Divi and Robert Owen’s model villages.
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The Co-op & Manchester
Albert Square – The Heart and History of Manchester In One Square
Albert Square – The Heart and History of Manchester In One Square
04/05/2013 12:00 pm – 04/05/2013 1:40 pm
At the centre of Manchester is Albert Square, a grand, elegant space studded with statues of the great and powerful – Gladstone, John Bright, Bishop Fraser, Prince Albert – flanked with…
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Albert Square – The Heart and History of Manchester In One Square
Exploring the Canals of Manchester (East to SportCity)
Exploring the Canals of Manchester (East to SportCity)
05/05/2013 11:00 am – 05/05/2013 1:30 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…
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Exploring the Canals of Manchester (East to SportCity)
Canal Cruise
Canal Cruise
06/05/2013 11:30 am – 06/05/2013 2:30 pm
A splendid spring morning sail along the Ship Canal, Bridgewater Canal and River Irwell to Salford Quays.
New Manchester Walks on water during this 3-hour canal trip with our engrossing historic…
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Canal Cruise
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
07/05/2013 11:00 am – 07/05/2013 1:00 pm
Manchester’s municipal palace in all its grand Gothic glory comes alive with a tour devised by Ed Glinert, author of “The Manchester Compendium”.
This is the de-luxe tour – from the towering…
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Official Manchester Town Hall TourOfficial Manchester Town Hall TourOfficial Manchester Town Hall Tour
Manchester Uncovered
Manchester Uncovered
10/05/2013 11:00 am – 10/05/2013 1:00 pm
John Alker takes you around the city on a tour of Manchester’s greatest sites and sights.
This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester Uncovered; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s…
Theatreland
Theatreland
10/05/2013 1:30 pm – 10/05/2013 3:15 pm
Manchester on stage – Annie Horniman at the Gaiety, Henry Irving at the Theatre Royal , Tom Courtenay at the Royal Exchange, Dickens at the Free Trade Hall – with John Alker,…
Old Salford Pub Walk
Old Salford Pub Walk
10/05/2013 6:00 pm – 10/05/2013 8:00 pm
The Round O’ Beef: gone. The Tripedressers’ Arms: shut. The Quiet Woman: rightly closed down by the PC police.
But don’t fear, old Salford still has some of the best pubs…
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Old Salford Pub Walk
Underground Manchester (various times)
Underground Manchester (various times)
Dare to drop down, down, deeper and down, into the deepest depths of the dark, dank city. This is the New Manchester Walks’ tour par excellence, as featured in the Daily Telegraph, Manchester Evening…
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Underground Manchester (various times)Underground Manchester (various times)Underground Manchester (various times)
The Wonders of Worsley
The Wonders of Worsley
12/05/2013 11:30 am – 12/05/2013 1:30 pm
Dukes and delphs, coals and canals, industry, innovation, heritage and heart-warming history at the western edge of Salford.
Marx & Engels talk at Gorton Monastery
Marx & Engels talk at Gorton Monastery
12/05/2013 12:00 pm – 12/05/2013 1:15 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.
In…
The Smiths’ Manchester
The Smiths’ Manchester
12/05/2013 4:00 pm – 12/05/2013 5:40 pm
Sharper than the Beatles, funkier than the Stones, cleverer than the Who, funnier than Madness, more sensual than Kate Bush, better-looking than Jesus & Mary Chain (okay, not hard), they…
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The Smiths’ Manchester
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
14/05/2013 11:00 am – 14/05/2013 1:00 pm
Manchester’s municipal palace in all its grand Gothic glory comes alive with a tour devised by Ed Glinert, author of “The Manchester Compendium”.
This is the de-luxe tour – from the towering…
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Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
Salford’s Religious Gems
Salford’s Religious Gems
15/05/2013 12:00 pm – 15/05/2013 2:00 pm
A Catholic cathedral, a 17th century place of worship and a Waterloo church. Salford Cathedral is also known as St John the Evangelist and was the first cruciform church to…
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Salford’s Religious Gems
The Rochdale Pioneers
The Rochdale Pioneers
16/05/2013 1:00 pm – 16/05/2013 2:45 pm
Today’s multi-million pound Co-op empire, with its £8 billion turnover, major high street bank, insurance branch and departmental stores – right down to the humble and ubiquitous co-op shop –…
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The Rochdale PioneersThe Rochdale Pioneers
Manchester Uncovered
Manchester Uncovered
17/05/2013 11:00 am – 17/05/2013 1:00 pm
John Alker reveals the best stories behind Manchester’s greatest sights – the Town Hall, John Ryland’s Library, Free Trade Hall, Royal Exchange, Hidden Gem Church…
Factory Records/Manchester Music Tour
Factory Records/Manchester Music Tour
17/05/2013 1:30 pm – 17/05/2013 3:30 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,…
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Factory Records/Manchester Music TourFactory Records/Manchester Music Tour
Le Corbusier’s Manchester
Le Corbusier’s Manchester
19/05/2013 12:00 pm – 19/05/2013 1:30 pm
Sixty-story steel skyscrapers segregating the city into superconcrete sectors. It nearly happened…
Charles Edouard Jeanneret, better known as Le Corbusier (“the crow”) wasn’t just the greatest architect who ever lived (well,…
C P Lee on Bob Dylan in Manchester
C P Lee on Bob Dylan in Manchester
19/05/2013 12:00 pm – 19/05/2013 1:40 pm
“Now Ophelia, she’s ’neath the window,
For her I feel so afraid,
On her twenty-second birthday,
She already is an old maid,
To her, death is quite romantic.”
Well Bob never sang about his own…
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C P Lee on Bob Dylan in ManchesterC P Lee on Bob Dylan in Manchester
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
Official Manchester Town Hall Tour
21/05/2013 11:00 am – 21/05/2013 1:00 pm
Manchester’s municipal palace in all its grand Gothic glory comes alive with a tour led by Ed Glinert, author of “The Manchester Compendium”.
This is the de-luxe tour – from the…
The East Manchester Explorer
The East Manchester Explorer
21/05/2013 2:30 pm – 21/05/2013 4:30 pm
It was once an industrial wasteland, now it’s Eastlands.
Where there were coalpits, locomotive works, chemical plants and cotton workshops are now sports stadia – Manchester City, the Velodrome – a cleaned-up canal,…
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The East Manchester ExplorerThe East Manchester Explorer
The Grand Hotels of Manchester
The Grand Hotels of Manchester
22/05/2013 11:00 am – 22/05/2013 1:00 pm
The Britannia, Portland, Mercure (still best known as the Piccadilly), the long-gone Queen’s, the Mint (sorry, Doubletree by Hilton), the Grand of course, plus the Malmaision, Palace, Midland, Radisson and…
Literary Legends of Manchester
Literary Legends of Manchester
22/05/2013 2:00 pm – 22/05/2013 4:00 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…
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Literary Legends of ManchesterLiterary Legends of ManchesterLiterary Legends of Manchester
Royal Exchange & John Rylands Library
Royal Exchange & John Rylands Library
23/05/2013 11:00 am – 23/05/2013 12:40 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…
Lives of the Filthy Rich
Lives of the Filthy Rich
23/05/2013 2:30 pm – 23/05/2013 4:15 pm
“Money makes the verld go round,” as Joel Gray sang in Cabaret. So here’s the deal. You pay us good money – £5 – and we will relate some rich stories about…
Off the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott Mill
Off the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott Mill
23/05/2013 6:00 pm – 23/05/2013 7:45 pm
Forgotten places, hidden traces, overlooked spaces in an old industrial, atmospheric corner of the great city…with a pint or two and some really odd photos thrown in.
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Off the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott MillOff the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott MillOff the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott Mill
Manchester Uncovered
Manchester Uncovered
24/05/2013 11:00 am – 24/05/2013 1:00 pm
John Alker takes you around the city on a tour of Manchester’s greatest sites and sights.
This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester Uncovered; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s…
Old Trafford & Trafford Park Explorer
Old Trafford & Trafford Park Explorer
24/05/2013 12:00 pm – 24/05/2013 2:30 pm
It’s the most famous Manchester suburb in the world, thanks to the small matter of the Newton Heath railway workers’ football team moving here in 1910. Around the same time…
Coronation Street Pub Walk
Coronation Street Pub Walk
24/05/2013 6:00 pm – 24/05/2013 8:15 pm
The Rovers may have been torched, Colin Fishwick may be six feet under the knicker factory, Minnie Caldwell’s cat may have purred its last, but the happy history of Britain’s…
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Coronation Street Pub WalkCoronation Street Pub Walk
Underground Manchester (various times)
Underground Manchester (various times)
Dare to drop down, down, deeper and down, into the deepest depths of the dark, dank city. This is the New Manchester Walks’ tour par excellence, as featured in the Daily Telegraph, Manchester Evening…
The Football History of Manchester
The Football History of Manchester
25/05/2013 11:00 am – 25/05/2013 1:00 pm
The streets of Manchester are awash with football, not just trophies, fans and players, but living, kicking football history: Manchester United being rescued from bankruptcy by a St Bernard dog(!);…
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Matt Busby
Matt Busby
26/05/2013 12:00 am – 26/05/2013 1:40 pm
The man who united Manchester was born on this day in 1909. Relive the life and the legend.
For fuller description of this tour, see http://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/walks-tours/people-george-best-to-the-pankhursts/matt-busby-the-man-who-made-manchester-united-2/
Gorton Monastery
Gorton Monastery
26/05/2013 12:00 pm – 26/05/2013 1:30 pm
Industrial Gorton boasts one of the most beautiful (former) churches in the country; a world heritage site, no less – Gorton Monastery.
We meet in the Monastery’s Friars’ Pantry for a talk and tour of…
Albert Square
Albert Square
26/05/2013 12:00 pm – 26/05/2013 1:40 pm
At the centre of Manchester is Albert Square, a grand, elegant space studded with statues of the great and powerful – Gladstone, John Bright, Bishop Fraser, Prince Albert – flanked with…
Wildlife
Wildlife
26/05/2013 3:00 pm – 26/05/2013 5:00 pm
Steve Bourne, with many years of experience leading safaris in Africa, Australia and Alaska, will be looking for Manchester’s wild animals, some endangered, some rare. Wear stout shoes and bring…
Music
Music
26/05/2013 3:00 pm – 26/05/2013 5:00 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,…
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Canal Cruise
Canal Cruise
27/05/2013 11:30 am – 27/05/2013 2:30 pm
New Manchester Walks on water during this 3-hour canal trip (with commentary) on the L. S. Lowry boat, as we cruise along the Bridgewater Canal, Manchester Ship Canal and River Irwell.
Please book…
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Canal Cruise
Off The Beaten Track: Red Bank, Strangeways & Cheetham
Off The Beaten Track: Red Bank, Strangeways & Cheetham
28/05/2013 2:30 pm – 28/05/2013 4:15 pm
Just beyond Victoria Station, in a hollow by the River Irk, was teeming Red Bank, a seedy shabby slum, colonised by Russian/Jewish refugees in the late 19th century. And towering…
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Off The Beaten Track: Red Bank, Strangeways & Cheetham
The Hidden Gems of Manchester
The Hidden Gems of Manchester
29/05/2013 1:00 pm – 29/05/2013 3:15 pm
This is a remarkable tour of city sites you always wanted to see but never dared ask. We will go to most of the following: the Fox Court at Chetham’s,…
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The Hidden Gems of ManchesterThe Hidden Gems of Manchester
Manchester in the Thrifty ’30s
Manchester in the Thrifty ’30s
30/05/2013 11:00 am – 30/05/2013 1:00 pm
The Gold Standard, Art Deco, dole queues, fascism, a new library that looks like the Pantheon, a new Town Hall extension that looks like a perfume shop from London, George…
Manchester in the Swingin’ ’60s
Manchester in the Swingin’ ’60s
30/05/2013 2:30 pm – 30/05/2013 4:15 pm
Best, beat clubs, the Beatles, Bobby Charlton & Brutalist Buildings.
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Manchester Uncovered
Manchester Uncovered
31/05/2013 11:00 am – 31/05/2013 1:00 pm
John Alker takes you around the city on a tour of Manchester’s greatest sites and sights.
This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester Uncovered; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s…
Discover Liverpool
Discover Liverpool
31/05/2013 12:00 pm – 31/05/2013 2:00 pm
John, Paul, George & Ringo; Bessy, Degsy & Arthur Askey; Cracker, Macca, the Wacker Quacker and that there Titanic.
This is the only detailed historic public walk-up tour of the world’s…
The Castlefield Explorer
The Castlefield Explorer
31/05/2013 1:30 pm – 31/05/2013 3:15 pm
Unravel the mysteries of the western side of the city centre on this eye-opener of a tour through the Roman birthplace of Manchester which later became the industrial birthplace of…
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