Events in April 2024
01/04/2024 - The Smiths' Manchester FREE Tour with Mojo's Ed Glinert
03/04/2024 - The Great Art Treasures of Manchester FREE Expert Tour
The Great Art Treasures of Manchester FREE Expert Tour
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03/04/2024
Here’s an example with The Light of the World, by William Homan Hunt (1851-56). This picture not only hangs in Manchester Art Gallery but it also at Keble College Oxford and St Paul’s Cathedral. So which is the real one or all three equally authentic? The St Paul’s canvas was painted nearly fifty years later, with the assistance of Edward Robert Hughes. The Manchester version might be by his pupil Fred Stephens.
In the painting Christ is knocking at the door, i.e. the human soul, an idea taken from Revelation 3:20.
“Behold I stand at the door and knock. If any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me.”
06/04/2024 - Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years. Expert tour w. Mojo's Ed Glinert
Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years. Expert tour w. Mojo's Ed Glinert
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06/04/2024
HOME07/04/2024 - Castlefield: Romans, Religious Relics and Railways FREE tour
Castlefield: Romans, Religious Relics and Railways FREE tour
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07/04/2024Please register for free with Eventbrite.
09/04/2024 - Ed Glinert giving talk on the Pugins for Bolton Arts Society
11/04/2024 - Ed Glinert giving talk on John Constable to Macclesfield Arts Society
13/04/2024 - Georgian Manchester (Private Tour)
Georgian Manchester (Private Tour)
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13/04/202414/04/2024 - Jewish Manchester (Private Tour)
Jewish Manchester (Private Tour)
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14/04/2024Victoria Station wallmap inside Victoria Station, Manchester15/04/2024 - Ed Glinert giving talk on the Secret History of Manchester and 1 other event
Ed Glinert giving talk on Victorian Manchester
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15/04/202416/04/2024 - Ed Glinert giving talk on Victorian Manchester
Ed Glinert giving talk on Victorian Manchester
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16/04/202418/04/2024 - Political Manchester (Private Tour)
Political Manchester (Private Tour)
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18/04/202421/04/2024 - Manchester Music private tour for businessman from New York and 1 other event
Manchester Music private tour for businessman from New York
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21/04/2024
Here’s the set list
* Tony Wilson’s pad.
* The Boardwalk, where Oasis made their debut.
* The Hacienda.
* Elbow’s “hole in my neighbourhood”.
* The Free Trade Hall, where Bob Dylan was booed and the Sex Pistols invented the modern Manchester music scene.
* The basement record shop where Morrissey had a job – yes! – for about five minutes...HOMEEd Glinert giving talk on John Constable's Art
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21/04/202424/04/2024 - Inside the Portico Library & Outside in Chinatown. FREE expert tour
Inside the Portico Library & Outside in Chinatown. FREE expert tour
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24/04/2024
As part of the Manchester Libraries Festival, official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert leads this detailed tour of the Portico Library and the history of the streets around,
Manchester Art Gallery27/04/2024 - The Peterloo Massacre: Expert tour and 1 other event
The Peterloo Massacre: Expert tour
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27/04/2024These unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author and compiler of the forthcoming Manchester Encyclopaedia, who has conducted enormous amounts of recent research into the entire Peterloo story (with many thanks to Mike Herbert’s invaluable expertise).
The Peterloo MemorialAlthough this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'buy tickets' below to reserve your free place.
Buy TicketsAngel Meadow FREE expert tour
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27/04/2024“The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, cadgers, vagrants and tramps.”
28/04/2024 - The Evil Corners of Strangeways FREE TOUR (and you can go home afterwards!)
The Evil Corners of Strangeways FREE TOUR (and you can go home afterwards!)
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28/04/2024Strangeways. The very name enough to send a frisson of fear down the spine of the most hardened felons.
Strangeways has been home to the most evil elements in existence – Ian Brady and Harold Shipman – and temporary refuge of political prisoners such as Christabel Pankhurst and Austin Stack, the Irish Republican who was one of the few to escape from its clutches.
Victoria Station wallmap inside Victoria Station, Manchester30/04/2024 - Southern Cemetery FREE expert tour
Southern Cemetery FREE expert tour
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30/04/2024Southern Cemetery (Main Gates)
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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