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Spies and Spying
Next tour: No dates will be set until that guy from MI9 stops following me around Manchester. Meet: Somewhere in Manchester. We will let you know using our secret pigeon service. Beware: Guides who may not be guides. Fellow walkers … Continue reading
In Search of the Nuclear Bunker
No dates yet. For a private booking, please contact New Manchester Walks. Meeting place to be confirmed Description to follow.
Strangeways
Next tour: Fri 10 April 2026. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap for a 2.30pm start. Booking: If you’d like to go to Strangeways, the law will help you. Alternatively, just follow the orders from the guv’nor below. Oh, alright: Please press … Continue reading
Eccentric Manchester
Eccentric Manchester or “John Dee, Dalton, Deacon, De Quincey & Hanging Ditch” Next tour: No public dates. It can be booked privately, for 1 April (of course!). Start: Midland Hotel. Why did hundreds of people flee in a panic from Market … Continue reading
Cholera – A Plague on Manchester
Next tour: No dates for the full cholera tour yet. To book a private tour – ideal for historical societies, schools etc who want a walking tour with a difference! – please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com Symptoms: Should you succumb to cholera, this is … Continue reading
The 1996 Manchester Bomb
This tour: Monday 15 June 2026, 11.15am. Meet: Outside Selfridge’s, Exchange Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. One myth we will shatter is that the pillar box that stands on the site now is the same pillar … Continue reading
Underground Manchester (Now on Zoom!)
We go down, down, deeper and down into Manchester’s biggest World War 2 air-raid shelter, where thousands huddled in safety from the Nazi bombs in the long-disused tunnel of the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal. Continue reading
The Royal Exchange
* At the moment we are featuring the Royal Exchange as part of a double tour with the John Rylands Library. We also feature the building on our cotton history tours. The Royal Exchange, a baroque palace that is now home to … Continue reading
Radisson Edwardian Hotel/Free Trade Hall
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: outside Central Library, time tbc. Book a private tour! We have taken a huge number of private groups around the hotel (with the option of cream tea in the restaurant at the end). To … Continue reading
Manchester Cathedral & Mediaeval Manchester
Next tour: Thursday 16 April 2020. Meet: Shudehill Metrolink stop, 11.30am. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. Hello to everyone who comes on our tours. We have a new system in place for tours of Chetham’s, Europe’s oldest … Continue reading
