Next tour: no dates fixed as yet.

Meet: outside the Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza.

The Sixties, as far as Manchester was concerned, were invented by Jimmy Savile. The late lamented DJ king held regular jive marathon lunchtime Saturday sessions in 1961 at the Plaza which stood to the Portland Street side of the Odeon but was demolished in the 1980s.

Business was bad there until Mecca made Jimmy Savile manager. Savile, with his shock of multi-coloured hair, soon began attracting as many as 2,000 punters. Anyone who smelt of drink, had a dirty shirt or was wearing unpressed trousers would be turned away by the tough ex-miners from Savile’s former Yorkshire colliery days who patrolled the door. They were even known to shave the sideburns off particular hairy revellers!

The Plaza sessions also attracted a large number of truanting schoolchildren, and when local headteachers complained Savile, with trademark cheek, responded: “You’ve had it too easy for too long. If you make your school more attractive than my dancehall you can keep them.”

The Beatles came for an audition at the old Broadcasting House on Piccadilly in 1962, only for Paul to fail. A year later Julie Christie could be seen carousing down Oldham Street in one of the most swinging of all Sixties’ film scenes – from Billy Liar. Three years later Bob Dylan was booed at the Free Trade Hall

There were plenty more fantabulously flamboyant figures: George Best, Albert Finney, Dougie Flood, not to mention the guys who cut their hair. But we don’t just recall the clubs, clubbers and football clubs. we pay homage to a golden period in English architecture that gave us such magnificent houses: Bernard House (gone, alas), Manchester House (ruined alas) and Quay House (still there in all its glory).

If you remember the Sixties you probably weren’t there or weren’t where it was at, in which case we’ll help you bring it all back home.