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21/06/2025
Next Walking tour: Saturday 21 June 2025
Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street.
Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.
Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now sell for millions. He called himself a “simple man”, but he was the strangest of fellows.
He never left the British Isles, enjoyed no sexual relations, and made his will over to a much younger woman, whom he befriended simply because she shared his surname. Lowry’s day job was not as an artist, he was a rent collector in the slum areas of the city.
We explore the man behind the paintings, and take you through the Manchester and Salford haunts he visited and depicted.
