Next Walking tour: Saturday 21 June 2025 Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.  Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose … Continue reading →

NEXT TOUR The Glories of Manchester Architecture: Tuesday 8 July 2025.  Guide: RIBA judge Ed Glinert. Starts: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** The Builder magazine once declared “one … Continue reading →

Next tour: Sunday the 13th of June 2025, 12 noon. Meet: Outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Evenbrite. *** You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who … Continue reading →

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: 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 →

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 →

Peterloo tours on the day: Saturday 16 August (Peterloo Day) 2025, 11am. Meet: outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. These unique Peterloo tours have been devised by Ed Glinert, Penguin author and … Continue reading →