Week of May 29th
27/05/2024 - The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour and 1 other event
The Pankhursts of Manchester / Suffragette City: Expert Tour
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27/05/2024
It is now just over a hundred and three years (1 December 1919) since a woman entered the British Parliament for the first time. American socialite Nancy Astor won a by-election for the Unionists in Plymouth Sutton, ironically replacing her husband, Waldorf Astor, who had just been ennobled.
The campaign to win women the vote and the right to enter the Commons had been raging ever since more than a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819...
Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LFRomans, Religious Relics and Railways FREE tour on Bank Holiday Monday
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27/05/2024Please register for free with Eventbrite.
01/06/2024 - Secrets of Ancoats, the Northern Powerhouse: FREE expert tour and 1 other event
Secrets of Ancoats, the Northern Powerhouse: FREE expert tour
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01/06/2024
Band on the WallSecrets of the Northern Quarter FREE tour
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01/06/2024
Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, modish Manchester, funky but chic Manchester.
It’s the Northern Quarter, the ’hood east of Piccadilly Gardens. A land of crumbling cotton factories, sky-scraping fire-escapes, Bohemian bars, downhome hidden spaces, cult markets, chic galleries and cardamom-scented, sizzingly-cheap curry cafes; a style haven shaped in marble, steel and beechwood, with streets named in Mediterranean tiles and pavements slabbed in mosaic.
Although this is a FREE tour, registration is still required.
Buy Tickets02/06/2024 - 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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02/06/2024Strangeways. 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, Manchester
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Manchester News
- 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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