Next tour: Sat 21 March 2026, 2.15 p.m. 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 has spent … Continue reading
Next tour: Tuesday 31 March 2026, 2.30 p.m. Meet: Outside Manchester Art Gallery. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Ed Glinert, official Manchester tour guide and author of Penguin’s Manchester Compendium, leads this fascinating fact-filled tour around the … Continue reading
This tour: Thu 2 April 2026, 2.30pm. Meet: Victoria station wallmap. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Join Ed Glinert, author of the city’s definitive history, “Manchester: The Biography”, on this tribute to the great treasures of Manchester. … Continue reading
Next tour: Fri 10 April 2026. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap for a 2.30pm 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 press … Continue reading
Next tour: Wednesday 15 April 2026. Meet: Salford Quays Metrolink stop, 11.30 a.m. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. Huge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, … Continue reading
Next walking tour: Wednesday 15 April 2026, 2.30 p.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 invent the computer! … Continue reading
The Glories of Manchester Architecture. Next tour: Thursday 23 April 2026, 11.30 a.m. Guide: RIBA judge Ed Glinert, author of "Manchester: The Biography". Starts: Outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** The … Continue reading
Next tour: Thursday 23 April 2026. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 2.30 p.m. 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, … Continue reading
"The Old Jewish Ghetto of Manchester" This tour: Thursday 21 May 2026. Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, 11 am. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** Here’s the full S.P. The Manchester area is home to Britain’s second biggest … Continue reading
* Next tour: Saturday, the 23rd of May 2026, 11 a.m. * Meet: outside the Malmaison Hotel, 1-3 Piccadilly. * Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. “Streets full of water. Please advise.” Surely Mark … Continue reading