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AprilThu 16 THE CASTLEFIELD EXPLORER Meet MOSI, Lower Byrom Street, 1.30pm.

Sat 18 CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water outside the Castlefield Hotel, 11am. £18. Please book with Quaytickets.

Sat 18 Politics on the Move THE SEARCH FOR THE PETERLOO MEMORIAL Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. Ends at the site of the long-vanished Peterloo Memorial.

Sun 19 Historical Ramble KNUTSFORD Run jointly with Spice Manchester. Meet outside Knutsford Station, 12.30pm.

Tue 21 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Explore Britain’s grandest municipal building with the experts. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Thu 23 POLITICS AND POVERTY Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm.

Sun 26 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2.30pm.

Tue 28 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Thu 30 THE PRE RAPHAELITES Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

MayFri 1 New! CENTRAL LIBRARY Britain’s greatest public library explored in full.

Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 1.30pm.

Sat 2 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Explore Britain’s grandest municipal building with the experts. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Sat 2 THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER IN 20 OBJECTS From the “Berlin Wall” to the “IRA” Postbox. Meet outside the Portland Thistle Hotel, 3-5 Portland Street, 3pm.

Sun 3 WILDLIFE OF THE RIVER IRWELL & POMONA ISLAND Meet Victoria station wallmap, 2pm.

Sun 3 MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER WALKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE! By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. Part 1: The Frock-Coated Communists. Meet Oxford Road station, 12 noon.Part 2: The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester. Meet St Ann’s Church, 3pm.

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Wed 6 SOUTHERN CEMETERY TOUR Meet by the Cemetery Gates, Barlow Moor Road, opposite James Hilton Memorials (No. 245), 12 noon.

Thu 7 THE WRONG SIDE OF THE LAW Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm.

Fri 8 JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY The only full tour of Manchester’s No. 1 TripAdvisor attraction... and the surrounding locale. Meet outside the library, 11am.

Sat 9 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Sat 9 WINSTON’S CHURCHILL’S MANCHESTER 70th anniversary of VE Day. Meet Malmaison, No. 3 Piccadilly, 2.30pm.

Sun 10 OLD DOCKS...NEW CITY...MEDIA CITY Meet Media City Metrolink stop, 12 noon.

Mon 11 MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL & CHETHAM’S The only tour of the two buildings at the heart of mediaeval Manchester. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 11am.


Thu 14 LITERARY MANCHESTER Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 1.30pm.

Fri 15 Pub Walk THE PUBS OF OLD MANCHESTER Meet Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm.


Sat 16 “CONTROL”: IAN CURTIS’S MANCHESTER Meet at the Portland Thistle Hotel, 3-5 Portland Street, 2.30pm.

Sun 17 MANCHESTER WILDLIFE Trails of the Riverbank Meet Victoria station wallmap, 3pm.


Tue 19 JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY The only full tour of Manchester’s No. 1 TripAdvisor attraction... and the surrounding locale. Meet outside the library, 2.30pm.

Wed 20 VICTORIA PARK Manchester’s Model Village Ends at the award-winning Victoria Baths for their tour. Meet outside the Whitworth Art Gallery, 11.30am.

Wed 20 Urban Exploring ANGEL MEADOW Victorian Hell-Hole Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 6pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub.

Thu 21 Great War Centenary “WALK WITH THE HEROES” Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm.

Fri 22 Urban Exploring THE UNKNOWN ANCOATS Meet Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 12 noon.


Sat 23 MANCHESTER MUSIC: THE HACIENDA YEARS Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 2.30pm.

Sun 24 Historical Ramble LYME PARK & DISLEY Run jointly with Spice Manchester. Meet outside Disley station, 12.30pm.

Mon 25 CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water’s edge outside the Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, £18. Please book with Quaytickets.


Tue 26 Manchester Heroes MATT BUSBY The man who made Manchester united. 106th birthday special. Meet Malmaison, No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am. Ends at the National Football Museum.

Thu 28 Manchester Heroes L. S. LOWRY & MANCHESTER Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

Fri 29 SECRET SALFORD Meet Hanging Ditch Wine Bar, corner Victoria Street and Cateaton Street, 11am.

Sat 30 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Explore Britain’s grandest municipal building with the experts. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Sat 30 MASTERPIECES OF MANCHESTER ARCHITECTURE, ART & DESIGN Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 3pm.

Sun 31 Historical Ramble MACCLESFIELD: BEYOND THE SILK ROAD Meet Macclesfield Station, 11am. Finish at the Treacle Market.

Sun 31 THE SUFFRAGETTES Vote Pankhurst “X” Meet St Ann’s Church, 12 noon.

JuneMon 1 STRANGEWAYS: NO ESCAPE Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 12 noon.

Tue 2 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Explore Britain’s grandest municipal building with the experts. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Wed 3 THE CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK & UNIVERSITY CAMPUS EXPLORER Meet at the Whitworth Art Gallery, 2pm.

Thu 4 FORMIDABLE WOMEN Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

Fri 5 New! CENTRAL LIBRARY Britain’s greatest public library explored in full. Meet outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 1.30pm.

Fri 5 Pub Walk OLD SALFORD Meet King’s Arms, Bloom Street, 6pm.


Sat 6 IN SEARCH OF THE MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL A tribute to the world’s greatest waterway. Meet MOSI, Lower Byrom Street, 2.30pm.

Sun 7 WILDLIFE AT MANCHESTER AIRPORT Meet Heald Green station, 11am.

Sun 7 THE SMITHS’ MANCHESTER 30 Years of “Meat Is Murder”. Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 12 noon.

Sun 7 JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY The only full tour of Manchester’s No. 1 TripAdvisor attraction... and the surrounding locale. Meet outside the library, 2.30pm.


Wed 10 Grand Tour MANCHESTER’S LITERARY LANDMARKS The Portico Library, the Anthony Burgess Centre, Gaskell House and more. Meet Art Gallery, 12 noon. Ends around 4pm. Please e-mail [email protected] to book a place.

Thu 11 MANCHESTER FIGHTS BACK Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm.

Fri 12 THE HIDDEN GEMS OF MANCHESTER Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 12 noon. Please e-mail [email protected] to book a place

Fri 12 Pub Walk THE VIADUCTS AND VALLEYS OF STOCKPORT Meet outside Stockport station, 6pm.


Sat 13 MANCHESTER: BIRTHPLACE OF DEMOCRACY Rights of Man... Equality for Women. 800 Years of Magna Carta. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon.


Sun 14 MAPPING THE MEDLOCK The River that Manchester Forgot Meet Lass O’Gowrie pub, Charles Street, 2pm.

Mon 15 THE 1996 IRA BOMB, 19 YEARS ON Meet outside Selfridge’s, Exchange Square, 11am.



Wed 17 JEWISH MANCHESTER Ghettos, Gateaux and Gatkes Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon.

Thu 18 Politics on the Move FROM WATERLOO TO PETERLOO 200 years since Napoleon did surrender. Meet Malmaison, No. 3 Piccadilly, 12 noon.

Thu 18 THE NORTHERN QUARTER EXPLORER Meet Portland Thistle Hotel, 3 Portland Street, 1.30pm.

Fri 19 SOUTHERN CEMETERY Meet by the Cemetery Gates, Barlow Moor Road, opposite James Hilton Memorials (No. 245), 12 noon.


Sat 20 ALAN TURING’S MANCHESTER Meet Manchester Museum, Oxford Road, Chorlton-on-Medlock, 12 noon.

Sat 20 THE DIDSBURY EXPLORER It’s Posh Down South In association with the Didsbury Arts Festival. Meet Didsbury Village tram stop, 3pm.

Sun 21 Historical Ramble THE GRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER Meet Etihad Campus Metrolink stop, 11am.

Sun 21 Liverpool! DISCOVER LIVERPOOL Meet Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon.



Wed 24 THE WITHINGTON & WEST DIDSBURY EXPLORER In association with the Didsbury Arts Festival. Meet Withington tram stop, 6pm. Ends at the legendary Red Lion pub.

Thu 25 Manchester Heroes ADOLPHE VALETTE Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

Thu 25 Back by Popular Demand! ITALIAN MANCHESTER Arrivederci Croma Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm. Ends at the Portico Library with Italian refreshments.

Sat 27 MANCHESTER MUSIC: SEX & DRUGS & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 2.30pm.

Sun 28 CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water outside the Castlefield Hotel, 11am. £18. Please book with Quaytickets.

Sun 28 HISTORICAL RAMBLE “WUTHERING HEIGHTS” A trek around Haworth and Bronte country run jointly with Spice Manchester. Meet outside Haworth steam railway station, 12.30pm.


WALKS DURING THE MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVALTHURSDAY 2 – SUNDAY 19 JULY

ABOUT MANCHESTER EVERY DAY DURING THE FESTIVAL AT 12.30PM

Manchester for Tourists, Visitors, Festival Goers and... Mancunians

Meet outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 12.30pm.

Ends at the Portico Library for refreshments (optional).

New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you have reached before, this is the ideal walk: a taster, a teaser, a trip through town.

It’s a best of everything, taking in the old and the new, the ancient and the artful – from a hidden gem of a church to the re-opened Romanesque library; from Manchester Art Gallery, with its Pre-Raphaelite paintings, to the Gothic splendour of Manchester Town Hall.

It’s the perfect welcome or welcome back to the 21st century city. Advance bookings recommended at www.quaytickets.com. £8 (£7 concessions).

Thu 2 THE CASTLEFIELD EXPLORER Meet MOSI, Lower Byrom Street, 3pm.

Fri 3 THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER IN 20 OBJECTS From the “Berlin Wall” to the “IRA” Postbox. Meet at the Portland Thistle Hotel, 3-5 Portland Street, 3pm.


Sun 5 MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER Walkers of the World Unite! Meet St Ann’s Church, 3pm.

Sun 5 MANCHESTER WILDLIFE Trails of the Riverbank Meet Victoria station wallmap, 3pm.

Mon 6 THE PRE-RAPHAELITES Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 3pm.

Tue 7 THE SUFFRAGETTES Vote Pankhurst “X” Meet St Ann’s Church, 3pm.

Wed 8 THE CO-OP & MANCHESTER “Good with food”, ethical banking, the Pioneers, the Divi and Robert Owen’s model villages. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 3pm.

Thu 9 “STAGE FRIGHT” – MANCHESTER’S RICH THEATRE LEGACY Meet St Ann’s Church, 3pm.

Fri 10 THE LOST LEGENDS OF MEDIAEVAL MANCHESTER Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 3pm.

Sat 11 MANCHESTER MUSIC: THE HACIENDA YEARS Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 3pm.

Sun 12 THE GRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER (EAST TO SPORTCITY) Meet Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 3pm.

Mon 13 THE SECRET HISTORY OF MANCHESTER The stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Meet Portland Thistle Hotel, 3 Portland Street. 3pm.

Tue 14 JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY The only full tour of Manchester’s No. 1 attraction on TripAdvisor... and the surrounding locale. Meet outside the library, 3pm.

Wed 15 MANCHESTER IN THE DAYS OF NEWSPAPERS 150th birthday of Alfred Harmsworth, the greatest newspaper baron of them all. Meet outside the Press Club, 2 Queen Street, 3pm.

Thu 16 OLD DOCKS...NEW CITY...MEDIA CITY Meet Media City Metrolink stop, 3pm.

Fri 17 THE GRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER (WEST TO CASTLEFIELD) Celebrating 250+ years of the Bridgewater Canal. Meet Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 3pm.

Sat 18 MANCHESTER’S FORMIDABLE WOMEN Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 3pm.

Sun 19 GRAND FESTIVAL FINALE: CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water’s edge outside the Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, £18. Please book with Quaytickets.

Sun 19 THE HACIENDA YEARS Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 3pm.

MORE ABOUT MANCHESTEREVERY DAY DURING THE FESTIVAL AT 3PM

Manchester for those who want to know a little more. Various meeting points (see below).A different specialist walk each day covering art, architecture, the Pre-Raphaelites, literature, Hacienda-era music, canals, Lowry, the Pankhursts, the old docks, Marx & Engels...

Advance bookings recommended at www.quaytickets.com. £8 (£7 concessions).

JulyWed 1 Manchester Heroes ANTHONY BURGESS’ MANCHESTER Meet St Ann’s

Church, 12 noon.



Wed 8 Urban Exploring ANGEL MEADOW Victorian Hell-Hole. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 6pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub.

Sun 12 Historical Ramble THE PEAK FOREST Run jointly with Spice Manchester. Meet outside Romiley station, 12.30pm.


Sat 18 AIRPORT 100+ Years of Flight in Manchester. Meet Manchester Airport Railway Station barrier, 10.30am.


Sun 19 CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water’s edge outside the Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, £18. Please book with Quaytickets.

Sun 19 Powerpoint Talk THE SECRET HISTORY OF MANCHESTER Meet Gorton Monastery, 12 noon.


Thu 23 Great War Centenary “WALK WITH THE HEROES” Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm.




Wed 29 CANAL CRUISE WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Meet by the water’s edge outside the Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, £18. Please book with Quaytickets.

Thu 30 THE BIRTH OF COOL Stylish Manchester Meet Victoria Station wall map, 1.30pm.

AugustSat 1 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Sat 1 THE DARK SIDE OF MANCHESTER Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2.30pm.

Sun 2 Historical Ramble MARPLE & THE ROMAN LAKES Meet Marple Station, 12.30pm.




Wed 5 IN SEARCH OF L. S. LOWRY’S MANCHESTER Meet at the Portland Thistle Hotel, 3-5 Portland Street, 12 noon.

Wed 5 IN SEARCH OF L. S. LOWRY’S SALFORD Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 2.30pm.

Thu 6 Urban Exploring CASTLEFIELD A detailed tour around the Roman, industrial and canal birthplace of Manchester. Meet MOSI, Lower Byrom Street, 2.30pm.

Fri 7 New! CENTRAL LIBRARY Britain’s greatest public library explored in full. Meet outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 1.30pm.

Fri 7 Pub Walk THE BACK STREETS OF ANCOATS Meet Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 6pm.


Sat 8 THE WONDERS OF WORSLEY Meet Worsley Library, Worsley Road, 11am. Ends at the reborn Worsley Old Hall hostelry.

Sat 8 Manchester Music 24-HOUR PARTY PEOPLE Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 2.30pm.

Sun 9 Politics on the Move THE PETERLOO MASSACRE A mass Manchester meeting to demand the vote was scheduled for 9 August 1816, but it all went tragically wrong. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon.


Wed 12 VICTORIA PARK Manchester’s Model Village Ends at the award-winning Victoria Baths for their tour. Meet outside the Whitworth Art Gallery, 11.30am.

Fri 14 Pub Walk HIDDEN MANCHESTER Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm.


Sat 15 Historical Ramble DARK SECRETS OF LINDOW MOSS Meet Wilmslow Station, 11am. Ends at the Artisan Market.

Sun 16 Back by Popular Demand! THE STOCKPORT EXPLORER Hats, Hills & Fred Perry ’Cross the Mersey Meet outside Stockport station, 11am.


Fri 21 Pub Walk MARX & ENGELS Drinkers of the world unite! Meet St Ann’s Church, 6pm.



Sun 23 Historical Ramble HEBDEN BRIDGE & HEPTONSTALL Run jointly with Spice Manchester. Meet outside Hebden Bridge station, 12.30pm.




Wed 26 SACRED & SAINTLY SALFORD Inside Chapel Street’s three churches. Meet Renaissance Hotel, corner Deansgate & Blackfriars Street, 12 noon. £9 (£8).

Thu 27 New! CENTRAL LIBRARY Britain’s greatest public library explored in full. Meet outside Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 1.30pm.

Fri 28 SOUTHERN CEMETERY TOUR Meet by the Cemetery Gates, Barlow Moor Road, opposite James Hilton Memorials (No. 245), 12 noon.

Fri 28 Pub Walk THE NORTHERN QUARTER Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 6pm.


Sat 29 BRUTALIST, MODERNIST, CONCRETE MANCHESTER 50 Years since the death of Le Corbusier, the world’s greatest ever architect. Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 2.30pm.

Sun 30 Politics on the Move THE SUFFRAGETTES Vote Pankhurst “X” Meet St Ann’s Church, 12 noon.

Bank Holiday Mon 31

THE PRE-RAPHAELITES & THE TOWN HALL MURALS The Stories Behind the Paintings. Meet Art Gallery entrance, Mosley Street, 11am. Due to the popularity of the Great Hall, please check website nearer the time to confirm access.

Bank Holiday Mon 31

Manchester Music MANCHESTER IN 12 SONGS Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 3pm.

SeptemberTue 1 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL TOUR Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am.

Thu 3 RADICAL MANCHESTER Meet Victoria station wall map, 1.30pm.


Sat 5 THE MANCUNIAN WAY The stories in sight and sound of Manchester’s “highway in the sky”. Meet Star & Garter pub, Fairfield Street, by Piccadilly Station, 2pm.

Sun 6 WILDLIFE OF THE RIVER IRWELL & POMONA ISLAND Meet Victoria station wallmap, 2pm.


Tue 8 OLD DOCKS...NEW CITY...MEDIA CITY Meet Media City Metrolink stop, 12 noon.

Thu 10 FORMIDABLE WOMEN Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

Fri 11 JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY The only full tour of Manchester’s No. 1 TripAdvisor attraction... and the surrounding locale. Meet outside the library, 11am.


Sat 12 Manchester Music THE HACIENDA YEARS Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 2.30pm.

Sun 13 Historical Ramble ALDERLEY EDGE Wizards, Wells & Wondrous Stories Meet Alderley Edge station, 11am.


Tue 15 SALFORD CRESCENT & PEEL PARK Meet Salford Crescent Station, 12 noon. Ends at the Working Class Movement Library.

Thu 17 THE CASTLEFIELD EXPLORER Meet MOSI, Lower Byrom Street, 1.30pm.


Sat 19 MANCHESTER IN 10 ARCHITECTS Waterhouse, Worthington, Walters, Wood, Wilson & Womersley... Meet Central Library, St Peter’s Square, 2.30pm.

Sun 20 MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER Walkers of the World Unite! By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. Part 1: The Frock-Coated Communists. Meet Oxford Road station, 12 noon.Part 2: The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester. Meet St Ann’s Church, 3pm.



Thu 24 THE PRE-RAPHAELITES Meet Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm.

Sat 26 AIRPORT 100+ Years of Flight in Manchester. Meet Airport Railway Station barrier, 10.30am.


Sat 26 Manchester Music SEX & DRUGS & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Meet HOME, Whitworth Street West, 3pm.

Sun 27 Powerpoint talk 10 MANCHESTER INVENTIONS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD Meet Gorton Monastery, 12 noon.


11996 IRA BOMB15 June 1996: city centre Manchester blown up by a huge terrorist bomb. And if you think the pillar box on Corporation Street is the one that survived the blast, you need to come on our walk!

AADOLPHE VALETTE “Mr Monsieur” left a mesmerising series of impressionist views of Manchester; the fogs, the smogs and the industrial haze of the early 20th century.

ALAN TURING Tortured Genius of the Computer AgeHe broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost invented the computer, and was persecuted to a painful suicide by the ungrateful authorities. A tortured genius and modern martyr.

ALDERLEY EDGEA verdant, woody Cheshire setting with stories of folklore from the Bronze age and Druids to copper-mining, Romans and 21st century celebrities – all on the striking sandstone outcrop known as “the Edge”.

ANCOATS Workshop of the World Industry began here a factory hoot from the city centre, but now it’s all cleaned up. The mills are modern workshops, the factories smart apartments, but the grim, grimy and gritty stories remain.

ANGEL MEADOW Victorian Hell-HoleThe stench of the tannery, the dyeworks, the iron foundry, brewery, tripe works and rotting vegetation from the Smithfield market together with the neighborhood’s bad sanitation made for a potent brew. And then there were the rather troublesome inhabitants – “prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, cadgers, vagrants and tramps.” Okay, it’s no longer quite that bad.

ANTHONY BURGESS’S MANCHESTER The Future’s Clockwork, the Future’s OrangePolymath and polyglot, he chain smoked for England and wrote more words than Dickens, Wells and Trollope combined.

ARCHITECTURE“One can scarcely walk about Manchester without coming across frequent examples of the grand in architecture. There is nothing to equal it since the building of Venice.” So said the Builder magazine. We will prove them right on our various architecture walks.

CCANAL CRUISE (WITH HISTORICAL COMMENTARY)New Manchester Walks on water during this 3-hour canal trip, so watch Manchester, Trafford Park and Salford glide past as we cruise along the Bridgewater Canal, Manchester Ship Canal and River Irwell, with expert commentary all the way. Please book with Quaytickets.

CASTLEFIELD What did the Romans ever do for us? Well, they put a castle in a field 2,000 years ago and called it Mamucium, “place of the breast-shaped hill”. Later this became the birthplace of the industrial revolution and the world’s first railway.

CENTRAL LIBRARY Britain’s greatest public library explored in full – from the secret stacks to the gallery of Mancunian greats.

CLOCK TOWER TOURS AT MANCHESTER TOWN HALLL. S. Lowry painted it, Alfred Waterhouse designed it, Great Abel hangs from it, and you will once again be able to go up the Clock Tower at Manchester Town Hall. New Manchester Walks in time with the city.

THE WALKS

CO-OP & MANCHESTER “Good with food”, ethical banking, the Pioneers, the Divi and Robert Owen’s model villages.

DDARK SIDE OF MANCHESTER Terrorism, riots, hangings, murders, fascists and some really nasty stuff.

DIDSBURYGrand villas, Gothic towers and glorious gardens including the magnificent Towers, the finest mansion in Manchester.

EENGELS AND MARX By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By night they were rabid radicals, roaming the streets with revolutionary fervour. Follow in Engels’ and Marx’s footsteps through the same hell-holes and high-spots.

GGRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER (EAST TO SPORTCITY)Manchester is a city built by the water and made by the water; and right by the city centre the waters fork as the canals head to the old industrial heartland, the disused coal mines and Sportcity.

GRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER (WEST TO CASTLEFIELD)Walk through the city centre as the water gently laps the canal bank, away from the streets and cars, as we head towards the Manchester delta where the Bridgewater, Rochdale and Manchester Ship Canal close in by the rivers Irwell and Medlock.

GREAT WAR CENTENARY: “WALK WITH THE HEROES”It was the war to end all wars. Manchester sent tens of thousands to the continent, but so many never returned.

HHEBDEN BRIDGE & HEPTONSTALLHistorical RambleWest Yorkshire at its worthiest gives way to the hell-hole rocks, Ted Hughes’s passionate pastoral poetry and the village that time forgot. HIDDEN GEMS OF MANCHESTER Treasures, gems, riches, obscurities and esoterica, away from the public gaze.

HIDDEN PUBS OF MANCHESTER Far from the madding crowd are the back-street boozers, twilight alehouses and tucked-away taverns where serious thinking and occasional drinking put Manchester and the rest of the world to rights.

HISTORY OF MANCHESTER IN 20 OBJECTS From the “Berlin Wall” to the “IRA” Postbox via the Rolls-Royce cartouche, the Town Hall cotton boll, Gladstone’s statue and even a liver bird (!)

IIAN CURTIS’S MANCHESTERA tortured soul; a visceral, troubled mind with a voice that echoed Jim Morrison, Iggy Pop and Matt Monro.

ITALIAN MANCHESTER Arrivederci CromaVenetian-styled warehouses, ice-cream in a licking-glass and a vibrant immigrant community – until WWII and internment.

JJEWISH MANCHESTER The first local Jewish settlers lived around what is now the Cathedral (don’t ask), which was where their most famous figure worshipped (believe it).

JOHN RYLAND’S LIBRARY Gothic architecture, holy texts and priceless artefacts fill one of the world’s most awe- inspiring palaces of culture, built out of the love of a wealthy widow for her late husband.

KKNUTSFORD It’s classy Cranford in Chi-Chi Cheshire. It’s the home town of Mrs Gaskell. It’s Tatton, General Patton and the maddest architecture in the North-West.

LLINDOW MOSS Sturdy footwear needed for a spot of “bog-trotting” around Lindow Moss, an eerie place occupied since 4,000 BC and made famous by the discovery of the “Lindow Man” in the 1980s.

LITERARY MANCHESTER – THE GRAND TOUR A long, loving literary look at the city with visits to the Portico Library and the Anthony Burgess Centre, finishing at the wonderfully-revamped Gaskell House.

LIVERPOOL John, Paul, George, Ringo & Pete Best; Bessy, Degsy & Arthur Askey; Bazza & Shanks, that there Titanic, Cracker, Macca and the Wacker Quacker.

L. S. LOWRY Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now go for millions.

LYME PARK & DISLEYA wild romantic park abuts a delightful village haunted by tales of stagecoaches, a dypso poet and Mount Everest.

MMACCLESFIELD Beyond the Silk Road Leave the Mancunian mills behind to meet the Maxonians in “Silk town” or “Treacle town”, the only mill town that wasn’t bombed during WWII.

MANCHESTER AIRPORTForget Kitty Hawk, Manchester has long been one of the world’s leading centres for early aviation.

MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL & CHETHAM’SThe only tour of the two buildings at the heart of mediaeval Manchester in celebration of the 800th anniversary of the Cathedral’s rebuilding.

MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY Ivy-clad quads, red brick labs, dreaming spires and a history studded with Nobel Prize winners and high flyers: Alan Turing, L. S. Lowry, Anthony Burgess, Anna Ford, Lord Rutherford and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

MANCUNIAN WAYThe stories in sight and sound of Manchester’s “highway in the sky”.

MAPPING THE MEDLOCK The River that Manchester ForgotManchester’s forgotten river dips, ducks and dives in and out of view through the city centre, hidden under UMIST and barely noticeable at Little Ireland, before disappearing into a watery grave in the Irwell.

MARPLE & THE ROMAN LAKES Historical RambleDelightful, delicious, deciduous countryside dotted with horse tunnels, coal mines and those ancient ancient lakes.

MATT BUSBY The Man Who Made Manchester unitedHe was the most charismatic and most worshipped manager in the history of football. And he was pretty successful. He played for Manchester City in the FA Cup Final, and his Manchester United teams won 5 Championships, 2 FA Cups and 1 European Cup.

MEDIAEVAL MANCHESTERCavaliers, Roundheads, ale-tasters, severed heads and groat smashers.

MURALS AT MANCHESTER TOWN HALL Ed Glinert explains all there is to know about the 12 Ford Madox Brown paintings, why these subjects were chosen, what the paintings mean and reveals the characters depicted.

MUSIC: MANCHESTER IN 12 SONGS The sound of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, John Cooper Clarke, the Hollies, Oasis, Happy Mondays, the Jam...

MUSIC: THE HACIENDA YEARS Chicer than the Copacabana, sexier than Studio 54, the Hacienda was the world’s most feted club before it was all torn apart in a wave of dodgy drugs and duff discs.

NNEWSPAPERS: WHEN MANCHESTER WENT TO PRINTCelebrating the 150th birthday of Alfred Harmsworth, the greatest newspaper baron of them all. NORTHERN QUARTERCrumbling cotton factories, sky-scraping fire-escapes, Bohemian bars, downhome hidden spaces, cult markets, chic galleries and cardamom-scented, sizzingly-cheap curry cafes; a style haven shaped in marble, steel and beechwood with streets named in Mediterranean tiles and pavements slabbed in mosaic.

OOLD SALFORD PUB WALKThe Round O’Beef: long gone. The Tripedressers’ Arms: shut down. The Quiet Woman: closed down by the PC police. But don’t fear, old Salford still has some of the best pubs in drinksland.

OLD DOCKS...NEW CITY... MEDIA CITYHuge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, as deep as Suez, as powerful as the Panama. Here a new city has risen, a city of glass, steel and burnished metal, bold and brilliant.

PPEAK FORESTHistorical RambleA mediaeval chapel deep in the countryside, a glorious canal and Britain’s most dramatic viaduct.

PETERLOO Massacre On The Streets Of ManchesterAugust 1819: more than a dozen killed and hundreds injured at a Manchester demonstration called to demand the right to vote – what became known as the Peterloo Massacre. Peterloo expert Ed Glinert, who worked with Paul Foot, recalls the blackest day in Manchester’s history.

POLITICSManchester is a city founded on dissent and protest; run on riot, revolt and rebellion. There’s left wing, there’s right wing and there’s New Manchester Walks’s political tours.

PRE-RAPHAELITES Christ was their hero and John Ruskin their mentor. They tore up the art rule book and gave Britain a reputation for quality painting.

PUBS OF OLD MANCHESTER These are the pubs that time forgot, where Manchester floats on a sea of mild and bitter, and “gastro” means Holt’s rather than haute cuisine. Bring your own Woodbines.

SSALFORD WALKSTales of “Dirty Old Town”, Hobsons Choice, the vegetarian church, Flat Iron Market, the Working Class Library, a Waterloo church and a Catholic cathedral, the Real Tennis court, a fierce preacher, Peel Park, poverty and Love on the Dole.

SECRET HISTORY OF MANCHESTERThe Suffragettes attacking the paintings in the art gallery, American GIs taking over the city, Bob Dylan and the two “Judases”... the stories you won’t hear elsewhere.

SEX & DRUGS & ROCK ‘N’ ROLL Sex? Hopefully. Drugs? Occasionally illegally. Rock ‘n’ Roll? Usually. All Three? Definitely... maybe...

SHIP CANAL WALKA detailed exploration of (only a few miles – phew! of) the world’s most famous and feted waterway, from its boundary at Cornbrook to the Corrie studios and Mode Wheel Locks.

THE SMITHS More melodic than the Beatles, more powerful than the Stones, cleverer than the Who, catchier than U2, they played music that lifted the soul with words that sharpened the mind. They were the Smiths and no one sang more seductively about Manchester.

SOUTHERN CEMETERY R.I.P. Matt Busby, L. S. Lowry, John Rylands, Tony Wilson... and the forgotten victim of the Munich Air Disaster. Tour led by Ed Glinert, author of HarperCollins’s London’s Dead.

STAGE FRIGHT: MANCHESTER’S THEATRE HISTORYJesse Jewel at the Gaumont, “Saucy” Arthur Roberts at the Hippodrome, Hobson’s Choice at the Gaiety – and all before the curtain goes up.

STOCKPORTValleys, viaducts, hills and heights line the town at the source of the Mersey.

STRANGEWAYS That name... enough to send a frisson of fear down the spine of the most hardened villain, and boy have they been here: Ian Brady and Harold Shipman, but also the political prisoner Christabel Pankhurst and the bad flyer Ian Brown. We’ll stay outside the prison walls.

SUFFRAGETTE CITY/ THE PANKHURTSThey were the Manchester women who won the right for the vote, but only after they had smashed the windows of Whitehall and really annoyed that unhelpful Manchester MP, Winston Churchill.

TTOWN HALL TOUR Immense, sprawling and magnificent, Manchester Town Hall is the crowning creation of the Victorian city, the grandest of Gothic masterpieces and the greatest civic building in the North.

VVICTORIA PARK Manchester’s Model VillageSumptuous tree-lined streets, spooky, crumbling mansions and an outrageously beautiful church fill the once idyllic south Manchester avenues where Charles Hallé, the Pankhursts and Manchester’s millionaires lived.

WWILDLIFE Trails of the RiverbankDeep in the heart of the city Manchester’s other inhabitants live and lurk, and wild and unusual birds preen and prey. Steve Bourne leads a walking safari in search of Manchester’s wide variety of animals, some endangered, some rare.

WINSTON CHURCHILL’S MANCHESTER His Finest Hour Was he the greatest Englishman of the 20th century or an egomaniac who should be vilified for using poison gas on the Iraqis? Was he the champion of democracy and decency, the main bulwark against the Nazi psychopaths, or simply a reactionary who opposed giving women the vote and once blushed at the sight of a woman MP in Parliament?

WITHINGTON & WEST DIDSBURY The UK’s first aerodrome, Factory Records’ HQ, a Nobel Prize winner and Richard & Judy.

WOMEN OF MANCHESTER Not just the Pankhursts, but Annie Horniman, Ellen Wilkinson, Enriqueta Rylands, Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw...

WUTHERING HEIGHTSOut on the winding windy moors we’ll roll and fall in our trek around Haworth and Bronte Country.

TRADE & GROUP TOURS All our tours can be booked privately. The Hidden Gems, the Historical Canal Cruise, John Rylands Library and Manchester Town Hall are ideal for your social club, history group or office. AIRPORT REPRESENTATION Meet & assist and Airport/Hotel transfers. COACH TOURS Coronation Street Locations: The perfect add-on to your group’s Old Coronation Street Tour. We visit the key locations where the most dramatic events were filmed: Richard Hillman’s watery grave, the Prestwich church where many weddings and funerals were shot, the Red Rec and Weatherfield Quays. Manchester Highlights Town Hall, world’s first railway station, Chinatown, Salford Quays and MediaCity, Old Trafford, University, cotton warehouses, stadiums of Sportcity, Gorton Monastery, Fairfield Moravian Settlement. Sport, Stars & Stadiums A sporting tour of a city famous for football, cricket, cycling and rugby including the Etihad, Velodrome, both Old Traffords, Salford City Reds...

Explore Britain’s grandest municipal palace with the experts on a tour featured by Radio Manchester, BBC’s Antiques Roadshow and The One Show.

Booking This is a very popular tour, so please e-mail us at [email protected] to let us know you’re coming. Please check our website nearer the time for updated information regarding access.

Tuesday & Saturday at 11am (from May 1)Meet outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street. £8 (£7 concessions).

New Manchester Walks is an independent walks, talks and tours outfit of official qualified Blue and Green Badge Guides, with decades of experience in the tourism business in Manchester, London and around the world.

Planning to go on a walk?Please check our website before setting off in case of changes, last- minute problems or adverse weather.

Just turn up for all walks except where stated. The Canal Cruise must be booked through Quay Tickets at www.quaytickets.com, 0843 208 0500.

Most walks last about 2 hours.

Places on the Gorton Monastery tour and talks should be booked with the Monastery by e-mailing [email protected] or phoning 0161 223 3211.

*No concessions on Cathedral tours – donation made.

Please let us know if you are bringing a group.

MORE THAN JUST WALKS... One phone call and we’ll organise everything!

TOWN HALL TOUR

Chi-Chi Cheshire Alderley Edge, Jodrell Bank, the architectural gems of Knutsford, picturesque Peover villages, George Best’s “Que Sera”, Tabley House... Yorkshire of Yore Handsome stone-hewn hot-spots in the hills of Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Howarth and Holmfirth. Last of the summer wine? First of the summer tours! Liver-ly, Luvver-ly Liverpool World Heritage Waterfront, Albert Dock, Anfield, Penny Lane, Strawberry Field, two Cathedrals... HISTORICAL CANAL CRUISE For full details see elsewhere in leaflet or on website. TALKS We host talks on many aspects of Manchester history – architecture, royalty, the Pankhursts, Marx & Engels, Manchester Ship Canal, religion and much more – at the Portico Library and glorious Gorton Monastery... for social groups, societies and clubs such as the U3A, WI and the National Trust.

Contact Ed Glinert on 07769 298068 or Sue Grimditch 07884 001315 at New Manchester Walks for more details.

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CANAL - New Manchester Walks...Sun 31 Historical Ramble MACCLESFIELD: BEYOND THE SILK ROAD Meet Macclesfield Station, 11am. Finish at the Treacle Market. Sun 31 THE SUFFRAGETTES Vote