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The Glories & Spoils of Manchester University
Next tour: Thursday 5 July. Start: Manchester Museum reception, off Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 11.30am. Ends: The newly-reopened Gaskell House. It’s the biggest centre of learning in Europe – colleges and universities, ivy-clad quads, red-brick labs, dreaming spires, and thousands of students populating … Continue reading
Didsbury
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Outside Didsbury Village Metrolink stop. Booking: Didsbury is the most desirable suburb in Manchester, free of the legacy of grimy industry, unsympathetic town planning and the detritus of urban life. Many of the grand villas … Continue reading
The Cliff – Sumptuous Suburban Salford
Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Greek Church, 400 Bury New Road, M7 4EY. Here’s a new one. “The Long Road to Strangeways: From The Cliff to the Clink”. We start in quaint, olde-worlde Salford, where period lampposts, rambling villas … Continue reading
Castlefield
Next tour: The Castlefield Explorer, Sunday 27 July 2025, 12 noon. Meet: Beetham Tower Entrance on Deansgate. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Castlefield is not only the Roman birthplace of Manchester, it was also the industrial birthplace … Continue reading
Ardwick – The Good, The Bad and The Downright Ugly
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, time tbc. 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 was … Continue reading
Angel Meadow – Victorian Hell-Hole
Next tour: Sunday 14 June 2026. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 4.30 p.m. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, … Continue reading
Ancoats
Next tour: Fri 20 March 2026, 2.30pm. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Cost: Free to register. Pay at the end if you think it was worth it. Large groups: Please … Continue reading
Winston Churchill’s Manchester
Next tour: No dates as yet. Meet: —. Was Winston Churchill the greatest Englishman of the 20th century or was he an egomaniac who should be vilified for using poison gas on the Iraqis? Was he the champion of democracy … Continue reading
Sylvia Pankhurst
Next free tour: Sun 5 May 2024, 1pm. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The 5th of May is the birthday of one of Britain’s greatest political activists – Sylvia Pankhurst. … Continue reading
The Rothschilds and Manchester
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