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Coronation Street coach tour
Next tour is on Zoom: Sunday 21 March 2021. This is a Classic Corrie Zoom coach tour to mark 60 years of Coronation Street. Meet: On your computer! Booking: Please press here to book with eventbrite. *** Coronation Street is now 60 glorious … Continue reading
Manchester in the 1960s
Next tour: Saturday 17 May 2025, 11am. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The ’60s were invented in Manchester when George Best arrived at Exchange Station as a raw 15-year-old in … Continue reading
Statues, Signs & Symbols
Next tour: The Manchester Bee and Other Spectacular City Symbols, Tue 16 Oct 2018 . Meet: Queen Victoria Statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 2.30pm. Ed Glinert is trawling the streets of Manchester locating every last interesting symbol that might reveal the really … Continue reading
Lost Rivers & Canals
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap (within spitting distance of three ancient waterways). What’s lost?: The Tib: gone; the Dene: nowhere to be seen (if it ever existed); Hanging Ditch: dried up. These are just some of the … Continue reading
Along the Ashton Canal to the Portland Basin (long tour!)
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, time tbc. This is a big one, aimed at all you trekkers. We follow the Ashton Canal, from the city centre, past the steepest street in the world, the … Continue reading
Suffragette City/The Pankhursts
Next Tour: Tue 26 May 2026, 2pm. Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. It is now more than a hundred and five years (1 December 1919) since a woman … Continue reading
Le Corbusier’s Manchester
Next tour: Sometime in 2023, we hope. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street, time tbc. The two most powerful influences on 20th century architecture were the American Frank Lloyd Wright and the Swiss Charles Edouard Jeanneret, known as Le Corbusier … Continue reading
Manchester in the 1930s
The country torn apart by unemployment, turmoil and poverty. The world at the brink of war. But hey, let’s not worry too much about today. Things were bad in the 1930s as well. But all was not doom and gloom … Continue reading
Alderley Edge
Next tour: 2019. To be arranged. Meet: Alderley Edge station, time tbc. Join Steve Bourne for a lovingly long trek through this verdant, woody, colourful Cheshire setting, complete with local stories of fact and folklore: from the Bronze age to … Continue reading
