Next tour: Wednesday 16 July, 11.15 a.m. Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The John Rylands Library has been closed for nearly a year. Now it’s back – and with … Continue reading
Next Tour: Saturday 19 July 2025, 11am. Meet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. It is now more than a hundred and five years (1 December 1919) since a woman … Continue reading
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
Next tour: Sunday the 20th of July 2025. Meet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials of 245 Barlow Moor Road).(Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop, 10 minutes walk away). Please don’t go to: The Crematorium, Nell Lane... Booking: Please press here … Continue reading
Next tour: The Castlefield Explorer, Sunday 27 July 2025, 12 noon. Meet: Beetham Tower Entrance on Deansgate. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Castlefield is not only the Roman birthplace of Manchester, it was also the industrial birthplace … Continue reading
The Beatles' Liverpool tour on Help's 60th Anniversary w. Mojo's Ed Glinert Date: Wed 6 August 2025 Time: 1pm. Location: Ken Dodd Statue, Lime Street Station. It was 60 years this day that the Beatles released their second soundtrack LP, Help!, named after one … Continue reading
This tour: Thursday 7 August, 11.15 a.m. Meet: Outside St Ann’s Church, St Ann Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The John Rylands Library has been closed for nearly a year. Now it’s back – and with … Continue reading
August is political month in Manchester...the countdown to Peterloo. Here’s a taster. Marx & Engels in Manchester. Marx & Engels in Manchester: Saturday 9 August 2025. Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue, outside HOME, 2 Tony Wilson Place, Gaythorn, 11.30am. Booking: … Continue reading
Celebrating Manchester History: Along the Canals * Sat 9 Aug 2025, 2.30pm. * Meet outside Oxford Road Station "Streets full of water. Please advise." Surely Mark Twain was reporting back from Manchester, not Venice, for the city is a font of … Continue reading
Tony Wilson’s Manchester: Sunday 10 August 2025. Anniversary of the day he died in 2007. Meet: outside HOME, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Tony Wilson never wrote a song, sang one or played an … Continue reading
