Next tour: Saturday 18 October 2025, during the Manchester Literature Festival. Meet: By the Queen Victoria statue, Piccadilly Gardens, 2.30pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Private bookings: To book privately, please phone Ed Glinert on 07769 29 8068. … Continue reading
Next tour: Saturday 25 October 2025. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap for a 12 noon start. Booking: If you’d like to go to Strangeways, the law will help you. Alternatively, just follow the orders from the guv’nor below. Oh, alright: Please … Continue reading
Next walking tour: Saturday, the 25th of October 2025. Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 3pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t invent the … Continue reading
Next walking tour: Friday 31 October 2025 (Hallowe'en). Meet: Victoria Station Wallmap, 6pm. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Enter, if you dare, a nether world of murder, assassination, hanging, homicide, regicide, talking corpses and some really nasty … Continue reading
Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Meet: Please meet OUTSIDE the Mercure Hotel for a 12 noon start! Date: Saturday 1 November 2025. Any problems, phone me, Ed, on 07769 29 8068. *** Some secrets * Did you … Continue reading
The Glories of Manchester Architecture. Next tour: Wednesday 5 November 2025. Guide: RIBA judge Ed Glinert. Starts: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** The Builder magazine once declared “one can … Continue reading
Next tour: Thursday 6 November 2025. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “The lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, … Continue reading
Next tour: Saturday 8 November 2025. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Cost: Free to register. Pay at the end if you think it was worth it. Welcome to Ancoats, the … Continue reading
Next tour: Thursday 13 November 2025, 10.45am. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. The glories, grandeur and greatness of the city. These are the Seven Wonders of Manchester; wondrous places, majestic settings, extraordinary stories: … Continue reading