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Lindow Moss
Next tours: Sunday 12 August 2018. Meet: Wilmslow Station, 1pm. Put on your sturdy footwear to join our resident guide Steve Bourne for a walk through Wilmslow, followed by a spot of “bog-trotting” around Lindow Moss – a place made … Continue reading
Macclesfield
Next tours: 2019. Meet: Macclesfield station, time tbc. Leave the Mancunian mills behind to meet the “Maxonians” in the only mill town that wasn’t bombed during WWII. With three former Roman roads meeting nearby, “Silk town” (or “Treacle town” as … Continue reading
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
Rusholme
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Hardy’s Well pub, corner Dickenson Road/Wilmslow Road
Secret History of Manchester
Next tour: Sat 21 March 2026, 2.15 p.m. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent … Continue reading
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
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.
Walk £8/£7 child To book please call Steve on 07900 984376 or just turn up. Continue reading
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.
Click on Walks Calendar for all June & July Walks Continue reading
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
