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SUMMARY:The Great Art Treasures of Manchester POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Next tour: Wednesday 3 September 2025\nMeet: outside St Ann’s Church\, St Ann’s Square.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nManchester Art Gallery is home to Britain’s greatest collection of Pre-Raphaelite works\, and in the streets beyond L. S. Lowry\, Adolphe Valette and even William Morris have left their signature. Join us as we unearth the masterpieces of Manchester art. \n \n 
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/the-great-art-treasures-of-manchester/
LOCATION:Outside St Ann’s Church\, St Ann Street\, Manchester\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Ed Glinert speaking on Liverpool Architecture for Wilmslow Arts Society
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SUMMARY:Stand Up To Racism Manchester! Guided Tour CANCELLED. NO INTEREST
DESCRIPTION:Date: Monday 15 September 2025.\nMeet: Victoria Station wallmap\, 11.30am.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nManchester has long been one of the world’s most welcoming cities\, accepting and assimilating those from Ireland\, Italy\, Russia\, the West Indies and more over the centuries. But it hasn’t alaways been a smooth journey. Many have faced hostility and discrimination before finding status. \nEd Glinert\, Manchester’s leading historian and tour guide\, author of the forthcoming “Manchester: The Biography” with Great Northern Books\, leads this tour into one of the city’s most fascinating set of stories…featuring Gandhi\, Abraham Lincoln\, Thomas Clarkson\, Paul Robeson\, George Fox\, Sylvia Pankhurst and Jomo Kenyatta\, in opposition to John Gladstone\, Nick Griffin and James Anderton.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/stand-up-to-racism-manchester-guided-tour/
LOCATION:Victoria Station Wallmap\, Victoria Station Approach\, Manchester\, M99 1ZW\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:10 Manchester Inventions That Shook the World. Expert Tour
DESCRIPTION:Next tour\, Thursday 25 September 2025\, 2pm.\nMeet: Outside the Science & Industry Museum on Lower Byrom Street\, Campfield.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nManchester invented the modern world\, for this was the first city of the industrial revolution\, and its inhabitants have given society some of its greatest creations. These are the ones we detail on this most inventive of walks (in chronological order). \n1. John Kay’s Fly Shuttle\, 1733\nCrucial to the development of the cotton industry\, in which Manchester led the world from the late 18th century until the Second World War\, was this simple machine. \nBefore John Kay’s Fly Shuttle\, workers threw the shuttle with their hands. A couple of weavers were needed at the loom\, throwing the shuttle\, one to the other. Now it could be done by one person. Those thrown out of work often joined the machine-breakers – the infamous Luddites – as depicted in the 10th Mural inside the Town Hall.\n• Kay fought for copyright in the courts but wasn’t successful. He died in France ruined.\n \n2. Britain’s 1st canal – the Bridgewater\, 1761\nBritain’s first man-made waterway\, with a route independent of rivers\, was financed by Francis Egerton\, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater\, who needed to find a way of reducing flooding in his Worsley mine. The Duke’s engineer\, James Brindley\, and his land agent\, John Gilbert\, proposed letting the water be channeled and the coal taken out along with it. The Duke soon realised he had enough coal to supply the needs of local towns\, and the most important local town was Manchester. He then built a canal across the land so that his supply could reach the growing town. \n3. Atomic Theory\, 1803\nJohn Dalton presented a paper to the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society on 21 October 1803 which proposed that all matter is composed of atoms\, that chemical reactions occur when atoms are rearranged and that compounds are formed from atoms of the constituent elements. Atomic Theory changed the face of science and ranks as the first instance of a Manchester event having worldwide conclusions. \n4. Vegetarianism\, 1809\nWilliam Cowherd\, a curate at St John’s off Deansgate in the 1790s left to set up a church in Salford where he preached that people should “eat no more meat till the world endeth”\, citing Genesis 9:3 as proof that God wanted man to refrain from eating meat. It catalysed a new world-wide movement in abstaining from meat. \n5. First Passenger Railway\, 1830\nThe Manchester-Liverpool Railway was the first passenger line in the world as well as the first with two tracks\, timetables and stations. The Manchester terminus\, Liverpool Road\, survives as part of the Museum of Science & Industry. \n \n6. The First Submarine\, 1878\nThe Rev George Garrett\, a Moss Side vicar\, founded the Submarine Navigation and Pneumataphore company at 56 Deansgate in 1878. His vessel\, Resurgam\, the first ever military submarine\, was devised in his office in 1878. Not being too near the sea\, Garrett’s team went to the Wirral to test his invention. Resurgam I was a 14ft\, one-man vessel nicknamed “the curate’s egg”. Resurgam II\, built in Birkenhead in 1879 sunk near Rhyl. The wreck was discovered in 1995. \n7. Competitive Football\, 1888\nWilliam McGregor\, a Scottish draper\, devised an ingenious new means of testing the best football teams in 1888. Each club would play each other twice\, home and away\, during one year. Thus was born the Football League\, the game’s first real test of a competition\, the forerunner of today’s multi-million pound Premiership\, at a meeting at the Royal Hotel\, Manchester\, on 17 April 1888. \n8. Rolls Royce\, 1904\nFrederick Henry Royce\, a local engineer\, met Charles Stewart Rolls\, a wealthy London playboy\, in Manchester\, but NOT at the Midland Hotel in 1904. Rolls had broken the world speed record in 1903\, going an astonishing 93 mph only a few years after the police had warned him not to drive at more than 4mph! They soon formed Rolls-Royce\, making luxury cars in Hulme\, two miles away. \n9. The 1st Programmable Computer\, 1948\nTom Kilburn and Fred Williams built a machine out of war surplus materials that could perform calculations from a stored program – what is now recognised as the first computer\, “Baby”. They first used it on 21 June 1948\, running a program written by Tom Kilburn\, the world’s first computer programme and the only one he ever wrote. \n \n10. Graphene\, 2004\nThe world’s thinnest material\, one atom thick\, soon to revolutionise computer screens and electronic technology\, was created by two Manchester University scientists\, Konstantin Novoselov and Andre Geim\, in 2004. \n\nJust the latest of a series of Manchester inventions that shook the world! \n 
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/10-manchester-inventions-that-shook-the-world-expert-tour/
LOCATION:Science & Industry Museum\, Lower Byrom Street\, Campfield\, Manchester
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SUMMARY:Literary & Philosophical Manchester (private tour for the Lit &  Phil)
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