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SUMMARY:Tour the Old Jewish Ghetto of Manchester
DESCRIPTION:“The Old Jewish Ghetto of Manchester” \nThis tour: Thursday 21 May 2026.\nMeet: Victoria Station wallmap\, 11 am. \nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \n*** \nHere’s the full S.P.\nThe Manchester area is home to Britain’s second biggest Jewish community. Yet it was not until 1788\, just over a hundred years after Oliver Cromwell allowed the Jews to return to the country\, that the first recorded Jewish presence appeared in Manchester: Hamilton Levi\, a flower dealer of Long Millgate\, listed in that year’s trade directory. \nIronically\, Manchester’s first Jewish community settled around the parish church (what is now Manchester Cathedral)\, for that was where the old town was located. \nLike the Germans and Irish who were settling locally at the same time\, the Jews saw in Manchester\, cradle of the industrial revolution\, opportunities for trade. They opened their first synagogue in 1794 in a warehouse on Garden Street\, a barely noticeable alley at the side of what is now the Printworks\, the building long gone\, near their burial ground. It was paid for by Samuel Solomon\, a well-known quack doctor\, responsible for the supposed cure-all “Balm of Gilead” which could allegedly cure all ills.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/tour-the-old-jewish-ghetto-of-manchester/
LOCATION:Victoria Station Wallmap\, Victoria Station Approach\, Manchester\, M99 1ZW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:The Grand Canals of Manchester
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n* Next tour: Saturday\, the 23rd of May 2026\, 11 a.m.\n* Meet: outside the Malmaison Hotel\, 1-3 Piccadilly.\n* Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \n“Streets full of water. Please advise.” \nSurely Mark Twain was reporting back from Manchester\, not Venice\, for the city is a font of watery ways and walks? Built during the early days of the Industrial Revolution\, the Rochdale Canal\, the Ashton Canal and their tributaries brought coal and cotton to central Manchester\, and took away manufactured goods to be sent around the world. Then the work stopped and the canals silted up\, but over the last fifty years the canals have been wonderfully restored. \nJoin Ed Glinert\, Manchester’s leading historian\, for a celebratory saunter along the great waterways. \nThis is a spectacular stroll along the waterways of Manchester\, invoking a host of stories industrial and architectural\, anecdotal and incidental\, as we head west from Piccadilly\, along the canals under the city streets towards Britain’s grand canal junction at Castlefield where four waterways cross. \nWe’ve changed the route for this tour to take in the city centre and Ancoats.\n\nUsual Route: Malmaison – the Venetian-styled Crown Court – Canal Street – the Gay Village – Alan Turing – Bloom Street power station – under Oxford Street – Lee House – the Ritz – Manchester & Salford Junction Canal detour – the Hacienda – Roman fort – Castlefield Canal Basin – Duke’s 92.  \n 
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/celebrating-manchester-history-along-the-canals/
LOCATION:Outside the Malmaison Hotel\, 1-3 Piccadilly\, Manchester
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SUMMARY:Emmeline Pankhurst’s Manchester
DESCRIPTION:Next Tour: Tue 26 May 2026\, 2pm.\nMeet: At the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue\, St Peter’s Square.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. \nIt is now more than a hundred and five years (1 December 1919) since a woman entered the British Parliament for the first time. American socialite Nancy Astor won a by-election for the Unionists in Plymouth Sutton\, ironically replacing her husband\, Waldorf Astor\, who had just been ennobled. \nThe campaign to win women the vote and the right to enter the Commons had been raging ever since more than a dozen people were killed and hundreds injured at the Peterloo Massacre in Manchester in 1819. Henry Hunt\, the main speaker at the Peterloo rally that never happened\, later became the first MP to put forward a bill to allow women to vote in general elections. But that was back in the 1830s. Two generations later the Pankhurst family took over the campaign\, leading one of the most bitter and brutal political battles in British history\, for many years from Manchester. \nPartial victory was celebrated in 1918 when (some) women were at last allowed to vote and stand. One woman was elected\, but never took her seat. A year later Nancy Astor made up for it. \nHear the full story on this eye-opening guided tour. \n \n!!STOP PRESS!!\nThis is the only Pankhurst tour which goes to the Pankhursts’ shop (yes\, I bet you didn’t know they had a shop in Manchester city centre!) and gives the accurate political background to the infamous Free Trade Hall rally in October 1905. \nWe have made a forensic and in-depth study of this extraordinary story. Discover Manchester’s cataclysmic connections… \n…read on below. \n  \nFurther study\nIn August 1819 at least a dozen people were killed demonstrating for the right to vote at St Peter’s Fields\, Manchester. Nearly a hundred years later\, in 1903\, the Pankhurst family\, disgusted with the Independent Labour Party’s refusal to allow women to use the newly-opened Pankhurst Hall in north Manchester\, founded the Women’s Social and Political Union to step up the campaign for the right of women to have the vote in parliamentary elections. \nWhat had been a sedate pressure group\, willing to stay within the law to change the law\, soon became militant. The women suffrage supporters (“suffragettes\,” the Daily Mail called them) disrupted a Liberal Party rally in the Free Trade Hall in 1905 and two of their leaders – Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney – were jailed. Manchester had become Suffragette City\, but it took a generation and many thousands of broken windows for women to secure the vote. \nThis is a walk in memory of the Pankhursts – Emmeline\, Christabel and Sylvia – fierce campaigners\, resolute radicals. We visit their haunts\, outline their struggle and follow in their footsteps. \nAn excerpt from the walk\nWhen Christabel Pankhurst and Annie Kenney were arrested for disrupting the Liberal Party’s political rally at the Free Trade Hall in October 1905 they were taken first to a cell in Manchester Town Hall and then to Strangeways Prison. \nSoon one of the leading Liberal politicians of the day turned up at the prison offering to pay the women’s fines so that they could be quickly released. The philanthropic politician was none other than Winston Churchill\, MP for Oldham\, who had recently crossed the floor from the Conservative benches. But was this really a welcome move or just a cynical one? Surely if the women agreed to his offer he could champion himself as being in control of them …
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/mif-tours-emmeline-pankhursts-manchester/
LOCATION:emmeline Pankhurst statue\, St Peter's Square\, Manchester\, M2 3DE\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:John Rylands Library...And More
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Thursday 28 May 2026.\nMeet: Outside St Ann’s Church\, St Ann Street\, 11.30 a.m.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nThe John Rylands Library has been closed for nearly a year. Now it’s back – and with our tours! \n*** \nThe only way to truly understand the magic of what is the No. 1 Manchester Attraction on Trip Advisor is on our regular tour.   \nThis is more than a tour of one of the world’s greatest libraries. This is a trip through the industrial and religious history of Manchester linked with the 19th century’s most successful cotton merchant whose legacy survives in the magnificent library named after him. \nTours start with an introduction to the city’s cotton past (at the Royal Exchange) and John Rylands’ religious background (at St Ann’s Church) before we make our way to Deansgate. We then hear: \n* An outline of John Rylands Library’s Gothic architecture.\n* The story of John and Enriqueta Rylands.\n* How the Rylands company became the most successful Manchester cotton merchants of the 19th century.\n* An outline of the library’s riches.\n* Remarkable pictures of the library’s and the John Rylands firm’s history.\n* A look at the oldest piece of the New Testament ever found.\n* A close inspection of the exquisite Reading Room.\n* An explanation of the key statues\, particularly Francis Bacon\, who paved the way for the Industrial Revolution during which Manchester thrived\, and John Wycliffe and William Tyndale who led a revolution in religion. \n***** \nThe John Rylands Library is often described as “the Taj Mahal of the North-West”\, for it is a palace built out of love; a widow’s love for her late husband\, a family’s love of religious literature; a city’s love of Gothic architecture. The building looks like a mini-cathedral\, a religious icon\, a divine presence on Deansgate\, but it is one of the world’s greatest libraries\, for out of the bequest of John Rylands\, Manchester’s richest 19th century cotton magnate\, his widow Enriqueta created an unrivalled collection: Dickens’s novels in their original wrappers; a first edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets; the second largest collection of works by the pioneering printer William Caxton; the personal papers of John Wesley\, John Dalton and Elizabeth Gaskell; later complemented\, most remarkably of all\, by the 2nd Century St John Fragment – the oldest existing remnant of the New Testament. \nThe library was built during the 1890s and deliberately placed on Deansgate next to what was then a violent slum (but is now entirely commercialised) to show Manchester’s underclass that there was an alternative. For them and for all users it was and remains free\, a haven of man’s pursuit of intellectual brilliance in a harsh industrial climate. \nThe architect was Basil Champneys whose ecclesiastical touches were toned down by Enriqueta Rylands\, a non-conformist. Nevertheless it remains powerfully Gothic – the last Gothic revival building erected in Manchester\, which opened on 1 Jan 1900 and was the first Manchester building to be lit by electricity. It was recently restored at great cost with a new grand entrance constructed on the south side. \nHighlights of the tour include the St John Fragment and the reading room\, a grand galleried Gothic extravaganza filled with stained glass and statuary. The St John Fragment is just that – a fragment – found in Egypt at Oxyrhynchus (Behnesa)\, the ruined city where some of the most startling and successful excavations in the history of archaeology were carried out. It was donated to the library in 1920 but not identified until 1935 when the papyrus collections were catalogued. The Reading Room is awe-inspiring and overpowering\, but the statues come alive when their significance is explained\, for here are representations of some of the most formidable figures in British history – Newton\, Dalton\, Bacon – the links between religion and science\, unfashionable at the moment\, crucial to the development of civilisation. This is primarily a religious building\, a building devoted to religion rather than for worshipping God. Pride of place goes to those figures found here who made Britain the centre of Christian tolerance: John Wycliffe\, William Tyndale and John Rainolds. \nTours of the library start with an introduction to the city’s cotton past and John Rylands’ religious background outside St Ann’s Church.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/john-rylands-library-and-more/
LOCATION:Outside St Ann’s Church\, St Ann Street\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Southern Cemetery
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Friday 29 May 2026\, 11 a.m.\nMeet: Cemetery Gates (opposite James Hilton Memorials of 245 Barlow Moor Road).(Barlow Moor Road Metrolink stop\, 10 minutes walk away).\nPlease don’t go to: The Crematorium\, Nell Lane…\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \n*** \nNew Manchester Walks will take you around Southern Cemetery\, final resting place of some of the greats of Manchester history\, with Ed Glinert\, author of “London’s Dead” (published by HarperCollins). \nWe will see the graves and memories of Matt Busby\, John Rylands\, Joe Sunlight\, Daniel Adamson\, Tony Wilson and L. S. Lowry\, as we explore Britain’s second biggest cemetery.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/southern-cemetery/
LOCATION:Southern Cemtery\, 212 Barlow Moor Road\, Chorlton-cum-Hardy\, Manchester\, M21 7GL\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:50th anniversary of the Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall
DESCRIPTION:This tour: Thursday 4 June 2026\, 6pm.\n50th Anniversary of the Pistols at the Lesser Free Trade Hall\nMeet: Outside HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.\n\nHere’s the set list\n* Tony Wilson’s pad.\n* The Boardwalk\, where Oasis made their debut.\n* The Hacienda.\n* Elbow’s “hole in my neighbourhood”.\n* The basement record shop where Morrissey had a job – yes! – for about five minutes\, resulting in a depression that inspired those great lines from “Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now”.\n* The Ritz\, where the first Smiths gig took place.\n* The Hidden Gem church where Tony Wilson’s funeral took place.\n* The Free Trade Hall\, where this day in 1976 the Sex Pistols invented the modern Manchester music scene. \nWhat does it sound like?\nForget Memphis and Merseybeat\, Manchester is music city\, a venue to rank alongside New Orleans or Notting Hill\, a factory of superior song-making and stirring soundscapes courtesy of Joy Division\, the Fall\, New Order\, Buzzcocks\, Happy Mondays\, John Cooper Clarke\, the Stone Roses\, 808 State and\, of course\, the Smiths\, all spinning around the legend of the Hacienda\, the world’s hippest nightclub\, chicer than the Copacabana\, sexier than Studio 54\, cooler than the Cavern or Cream. \nAt the centre of the city’s beat was Factory Records\, a record label to rival Motown and Chess with a business model that could be compared only to British Leyland or the South Sea Bubble. But it’s not about Mammon or the man\, it’s about the music\, the songs\, and what songs! – “Dead Souls”\, “William\, It was Really Nothing”\, “Rowche Rumble”\, “Time Goes By So Slow” – the list\, like the road\, goes on forever. (Jon the Postman’s versions of “Louie Louie” certainly did). \n \n“Manchester\, so much to answer for\,” as the man sang. \n \n 
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/50th-anniversary-of-the-pistols-at-the-lesser-free-trade-hall/
LOCATION:HOME\, 2 Tony Wilson Place\, Manchester\, Select a State:\, M15 4GU\, United Kingdom
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