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The Pre-Raphaelites & the Great Art Treasures of Manchester
Next tour: Thursday 12 February 2026 Meet: outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide, Arts Society lecturer, cruise ships speaker on art and author of Manchester: … Continue reading
Art in Manchester – Lowry and Valette
For now, we’re doing separate Lowry and Valette tours. Please see relevant pages.
Adolphe Valette
Next Tour: When Boris says it’s okay. Booking: With eventbrite. *** His students called him “Mr Monsieur”. His devotees praised his unique vision of Manchester. His legacy is the most important in Manchester’s art history. Adolphe Valette left a mesmerising … Continue reading
The Village Pub Walk
Next tour: No dates yet, but we do have plenty of other pub walks. Meet: Malmaison, 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. For decades it was a red-light district and a land of rotting textile workshops by a dirty old canal. In the … Continue reading
The Victorian Pubs of Manchester
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. 6pm
Victoria Park Pub Walk
Since the wonderful Welcome pub closed down, we have decided not to run the Victoria Park pub walk, but just do the daytime general Victoria Park walk. Please see elsewhere on website.
Swingin’ Sixties Pub Walk
The pub walk has been turned into a day time walk for now. The ’60s were invented in Manchester when George Best arrived at Exchange Station as a raw 15-year-old in July 1961, never having left Northern Ireland before. He … Continue reading
Reds, Revolutionaries & Real Ale
Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: to be decided. What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well he never came to Manchester, but Marx and Engels did, and so too did “Orator” Hunt, Richard Cobden and the Pankhursts. So let’s drink … Continue reading
Historic Pubs of Manchester: Intellectual Pub Tour
Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Outside the HOME arts centre by 5.30pm. Booking: These are the pubs that time forgot, where Manchester floats on a sea of mild and bitter, and gastro means Holt’s rather than haute cuisine. The … Continue reading
Interesting Salford Pub Tour
Next tour: To be decided. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking: Bring: Money for a few pints. Beware: Keg beers. End: Standing upright still, perhaps, in the New Oxford. Where shall we go? The Round O’ Beef: gone. The Tripedressers’ … Continue reading
