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		1	2	3 Welcome to Manchester Welcome 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.	4 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…	5 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…
6 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…	7 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…	8	9	10 Official Manchester Town Hall Tour Official Manchester Town Hall Tour Official 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…	11 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…	12 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…
13	14 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…	15 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…	16 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 –…	17 The Rochdale Pioneers The 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,…	18	19 Factory Records/Manchester Music Tour Factory 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…
20	21 C P Lee on Bob Dylan in Manchester C 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,…	22 The East Manchester Explorer The 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…	23 Literary Legends of Manchester Literary Legends of Manchester Literary 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.	24 Off the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott Mill Off the Beaten Track in Gaythorn & Knott Mill Off 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…	25 Coronation Street Pub Walk Coronation 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(!);…	26 The Football History of Manchester The Football History of Manchester The Football History of Manchester The Football History of Manchester The Football History of Manchester 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,…
27 Music 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…	28 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…	29 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,…	30 The Hidden Gems of Manchester The 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.	31 Manchester in the Swingin’ ’60s Manchester in the Swingin’ ’60s Manchester in the Swingin’ ’60s 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…