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Hell Is A City
Next tour: Wed 23 May 2012 Meet: Oxford Road Station, 2.30pm. Rivers clogged with excrement and decomposing bodies. Rampant crime. Factories “vomiting” toxic fumes and changing the colour of the horizon for miles around. Is this the Manchester of today? Not quite! … Continue reading
Hangman’s Manchester
Next tour: No public dates. Private Tours: Please send an s.a.e. to Mr. Albert Pierrepoint, Landlord, The Help The Poor Struggler alehouse, 303 Manchester Road, Oldham. Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street. Manchester can boast of being the city where the … Continue reading
God’s Manchester
Next tour: 4th April 2012 Meet: Victoria Station wallmap.
Fear & Loathing In Manchester
Next tour: 8th February 2012 Meet: People’s History Museum, Bridge Street.
Fascist Manchester
Next tour: Wed 11th April 2012 Meet: Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza. Despite its left-wing credentials, Manchester has some shady political connections. The most infamous figure in British fascist history was Oswald Mosley, 1930s leader of the British … Continue reading
The Tory Party Conference 2011 – The Killing Fields
A large section of central Manchester is now off-limits to the public with the arrival of the Conservative Party conference… Continue reading
Ghosts, Ghouls & Gore – It’s A Grave Night Out!
Next tour: Mon 3 September 2018. Meet: Victoria station wallmap, 5.30pm. Booking: Please book here on eventbrite. Beware: Headless corpses, ice maidens, necromancers and the unspeakable awfulness of being buried alive. This is haunted Manchester at its most heinous and horrible. We … Continue reading
Bridgewater Canal
Next tour: Saturday 19 July 2025. Meet: entrance Beetham Tower, Deansgate, 2.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. About the tour Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading canal historian, to explore the waters, banks and history of the Bridgewater … Continue reading
Northern Powerhouse
Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce … Continue reading
The Manchester Literary Trail
Next tour: No public dates at the moment. Meet: Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, time tbc. Booking: Perfect for a private booking! The three great epic novels set in and around Manchester are Magnolia Street (Louis Golding, 1932), Love on the Dole by … Continue reading
