This tour: Sunday 15 June 2025, 11.15am. Meet: Outside Selfridge’s, Exchange Square. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. One myth we will shatter is that the pillar box that stands on the site now is the same pillar … Continue reading
Next free walking tour: Saturday the 21st of June 2025, 11.30 a.m. Meeting Place: Manchester Museum entrance, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Alan Turing has gone down in history as the man who didn’t … Continue reading
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 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: Saturday 26 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