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Next tours: No dates yet. Ideal for school groups (A Level). Part 1: “The Glories”. Part 2: “The Horrors”. Victorian Manchester, The Glories: Gothic grandeur, democracy, free trade, Pre-Raphaelite paintings, education, full employment, war over. Victorian Manchester, The Horrors: Cholera, chimneys, tripe, … Continue reading →

The next tours are FREE Wed 15 Sep 2021, 10.45am. Meet: Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. What can we tell you? New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts … Continue reading →

Next walk: no dates yet. Queen Elizabeth II may well have opened Metrolink in 1992 but it wasn’t always so easy to get a royal to go to Manchester. The town simply wasn’t important enough for such luminaries as William … Continue reading →

Next tour: Wed 21 October 2020, 11.30am. Meet: Shudehill Metrolink stop Booking: Hear ye, hear ye, book here with ye eventbrite. The first settled community in Manchester was based in what is now Castlefield where the Romans built the first … Continue reading →

  We will take you around the main sights of the city: from Chinatown and the Town Hall to the Art Gallery, Free Trade Hall and John Ryland’s Library. This is the perfect wander around the capital of the North.

Next tour: Wed 27 September 2017. Meet: Outside the Press Club, Queen Street, off Deansgate, 1.30pm. Manchester was once a great press city. The Northern editions of all the dailies were produced locally, and here was based the greatest of … Continue reading →

SS GB Manchester – Hitler’s Plans for the City  (on VE Day 80, 8 May 1945-2025) Next walking tour: Thursday 8 May 2025. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 11.30am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The second world war began … Continue reading →

Next FREE walking tour: Thursday 13 April 2023, 2.30 p.m. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. A remarkable tour of concealed city sites you always wanted to see, the history lovingly explored and explained. … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Art Gallery, Mosley Street, time tbc. To book a private tour: Please contact New Manchester Walks. As the mediaeval town grew into the world’s first industrial city, the fields and market gardens standing only … Continue reading →

Next tour: No more dates until that slag – he knows who he is – is released from the slammer. Okay, Sat 10 November 2018. Meet at… the nick on Newton Street by 12 noon. Booking: Book here with eventbrite or we’ll send … Continue reading →