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Marple & the Roman Lakes to Disley

Next tours: 2019, to be decided. Meet: outside Marple Station, time tbc. What a walk! This is going to be a long trek, through some of the most pleasing and delightful countryside in the region, so build up some reserves … Continue reading

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Rusholme

Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Hardy’s Well pub, corner Dickenson Road/Wilmslow Road

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Nostalgia for Old Manchester

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Secret History of Manchester

Next tour: Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 45 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon … Continue reading

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Victorian Diseases

Next tour: No dates until the guide recovers from typhus fever. Private Booking: Please contact us from your convalescent home. *** Mill fever, typhus, typhoid, cholera, smallpox, scarlet fever … and something even worse from drinking water with tadpoles and … Continue reading

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More walks for June – MANCHESTER FOOTBALL CAPITAL

Celebrate the 10th UNICEF Soccer Aid match at Old Trafford. Steve is taking a walk in central Manchester on the history of football – where it all began! We start outside the Malmaison Hotel at 11:30 am – to hear stories about the beautiful game, suitable for all ages – ending at the NationalFootballMuseum at 1pm with time to visit the exhibitions.

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More walks for July – WALK WITH THE HEROES

Move through the First World War on the streets of the city with the heroes of Manchester.
Replay their battles, their poetry, their suffering, and capture a 100 years on the effect of this apocalypse on the men and women who were sent to fight.
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St Ann’s Church

For now we feature St Ann’s on tours such as: * Jewish Manchester. * The Great Art Treasures of Manchester. * Manchester’s Religious Shrines. *** Wealthy worshippers in the 18th century, unhappy with the High Church nature of the services … Continue reading

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Scottish Manchester

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Greek Manchester

Next tour: No new dates until the Euro crisis is over. They invented architecture, politics, philosophy, science and culture. But apart from that, what did the Greeks ever do for Manchester?   Greek Manchester, not Greece

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