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Next tours: No dates set as yet. Private tour: Contact us! Meet: Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street. Wine and song; it goes together. Sometimes there’s a woman in between, but there might just as well be a man. Like Muddy … Continue reading →

Okay, so we can’t sup a pint in the Rovers Return on Shudehill; the Seven Stars, Withy Grove; the Gaping Goose, Shudehill; the Castle & Falcon, Bradshaw Street; or the original Wellington in the Shambles, let alone Tommy Duck’s. But … Continue reading →

No dates as yet. Meeting place: to be confirmed Description: to follow.

Next tour: no public dates yet. Meet: Briton’s Protection, Great Bridgewater Street, 6pm. Far from the madding crowds are the back-street boozers, twilight alehouses and tucked-away taverns where serious thinking and occasional drinking set Manchester to rights. The Sir Ralph Abercrombie … Continue reading →

Next tour: No dates yet. Private tour: Ideal for the discerning fan(s)! Meet: time tbc at the Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly (the former Imperial Hotel, where the PFA was founded a hundred years ago). Football is a thirsty business, which … Continue reading →

Next tour: To be announced. Private Tours: Get in touch. Codename: Gloria Todd. Guide: Willie Eckerslike. Meet: HOME arts centre. Locations visited: The Old Grapes (formerly Liz Dawn’s pub) which has now shut bah; Cropper’s Corner, Castlefield (where Tony Gordon tried to … Continue reading →

No dates as yet.

No dates as yet.

Next tour: No public dates yet. Meet: outside Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. By the water’s edge Manchester is brighter and livelier. There’s a gleam on the water and a glint in the barmaid’s eye. And of course nothing … Continue reading →