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Hulme
Next public tour: probably autumn 2015. Hulme, the suburb immediately south-west of the city centre, became the setting for one of the most extraordinary social engineering-cum-architectural projects Britain has ever seen in the late 20th century. It was demolished, destroyed … Continue reading
The Grand Canals of Manchester (West to Castlefield)
* Next tour: Saturday, the 23rd of May 2026, 11 a.m. * Meet: outside the Malmaison Hotel, 1-3 Piccadilly. * Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “Streets full of water. Please advise.” Surely Mark … Continue reading
Grand Canals (East to Sportcity)
Next tour: Saturday 26 September 2020. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 2,30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. On the eastern edge of the city centre two canals (the Ashton and Rochdale) and one river (the Medlock) … Continue reading
Elizabeth Gaskell Coach Tour
Meeting place to be confirmed Description to follow.
Ardwick – The Good, The Bad and The Downright Ugly
Next tour: Sun 19 Feb 2012. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Ardwick was once so desirable a suburb, the richest and most powerful men in Manchester (Nathan Mayer Rothschild, John Rylands) sought it out for their mansions. Okay that … Continue reading
Computer Says: “Yes!” – Science in Manchester
Next tour: Fri 19 October 2018 (during the Science Festival). Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, 11.30am. Bring: A one-atom thick slice of graphene. End: Somewhat closer to gaining a Nobel Prize. “The switch was pressed and immediately the spots on the display tube … Continue reading
The Mad Inventors of Manchester
Tour superseded by “10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World”. Please see relevant page.
John Dalton – Father of Science
Next tour: Sat 20 October 2018 (Science Festival tours). Meet: Art Gallery entrance, 2.30pm. Most scientists do well to dominate thinking in one discipline; John Dalton came up with three. Arriving in Manchester in 1793 to teach maths, he engaged … Continue reading
Alan Turing – Tortured Genius of the Computer Age
Next walking tour: Saturday, the 25th of October 2025. Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 3pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t invent the … Continue reading
Churchill vs. Mosley
Next tours. No public dates. Meet: tbc. One was a maverick who served time in jail; the other was the Labour Party’s greatest hope for socialism. One deployed poison gas against the Iraqis; the other was supported by Nye Bevan, architect … Continue reading
