Category Archives: History Alive
Seven Wonders of Manchester
Next tour: Wed 1 Oct 2025, 11am. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, Booking: Please register here. The glories, grandeur and greatness of the city. These are the Seven Wonders of Manchester; wondrous places, majestic settings, extraordinary stories: the world’s biggest trading … Continue reading
Great Treasures of Manchester
Next tour: Friday 20 July 2018. Meet: Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Gardens, 2.30pm. The city hosts and holds a thousand treasures: glorious buildings, priceless artefacts, unforgettable stories. We’ve picked out some of the greatest for a remarkable new tour. • Wolfgang Buttress’s … Continue reading
10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World
Next tour, Thursday 25 September 2025, 2pm. Meet: Outside the Science & Industry Museum on Lower Byrom Street, Campfield. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Manchester invented the modern world, for this was the first city of the industrial … Continue reading
Irish Manchester
Next tour, The Little Ireland Explorer Saturday 15 March 2025. Meet: Outside HOME, 2 p.m. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. For 2025, we’re doing it a little differently, exploring Little Ireland as well as focusing on great … 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
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
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
