Public tours 2012
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Here's the list of some of my 2012 tours including old favourites such as the Manchester Pub Tour, Manchester's Architecture, Manchester's Literary Tours, Tunnel Tours, Haunted Tours, The Peterloo Massacre plus new or newish tours such as the Tour of Uninteresting Objects (which sold out last November), The Secret, Naughty Route Tour and S**t Happens – which is going to be dark but very funny too.
TUNNEL TOURS CAN BE BOOKED AND PAID FOR BELOW
Most tours are £7 per head. All tours can be adapted for corporate guests as well. Full booking and other details are located at the foot of this page. For a daily picture and building fact follow @JonathSchofield
A Tour Of Uninteresting Objects
Ah yes, the unregarded things that make a city. This tour reveals odd sculptures, mad details, washed up remnants of things inside and outside buildings. It’s different – guaranteed. Each tour will tackle a different area of the city centre and environs and uncover massive quantities of uninteresting objects.
Saturday 1 September 2012, Part 6,3.30pm, 1.30pm; Saturday 6 October 2012, Part 7,3.30pm Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL
The Secret, Naughty Route Tour
Contact me via email or phone to ask about this tour which is exciting but needs waterproofs, torches, a good level of fitness, an early morning start (6am) but guarantees a very unusual view of Manchester.
Meet Little Peter Street/ Medlock Street junction, City centre
The Peterloo Massacre Tour
16 August, 1819: the moment that defines the British struggle for democracy, the day that coined a phrase and stirred a nation. The tour takes in the key locations associated with the mass protest meeting in central Manchester that ended in death and mayhem.
11.30am Saturday 3 March 2012
Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL
Friedrich Engels in Manchester
Engels, with Karl Marx, was the father of communism. The 22 years he spent in Manchester shaped his thoughts and ideas. As the well-known historian Asa Briggs said, ‘If Engels had lived not in Manchester...his conception of class and his theories of the role of class might have been very different. In this case Marx might have been not a communist but a currency reformer. The fact that Manchester was taken to be the symbol of the age in the 1840s was of central importance in modern world history.’ These tours follow Engels footsteps around the city on two routes.
1.30pm Saturday 1 September 2012: Engels and central Manchester
6pm Wednesday 28 November 2012: Engels birthday tour covering the south and east of the city centre
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
S**t Happens
A tour of the down and out side of Manchester, the profane, the vulgar, the darkness. But it’s not all depressing and distressing. Light always shines through. Humour is never far away. Come along if you dare. Different routes are followed on each of these tours.
1pm 7 July 2012
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
Architecture in Manchester
Manchester is a lexicon of architecture. It mixes and matches styles and buildings with a crazy and haphazard panache. But there is a pattern. These tours look at the different periods of building in the city and explain how the city developed and is still developing. One tour looks at the perfect Manchester buildings.
1pm Saturday 17 March 2012: Georgian and early-Victorian Manchester up to 1850
1pm Saturday 21 April 2012: Buildings from 1850-1914
3pm Saturday 7 July 2012: Architecture from 1914 to 2012
3pm Saturday 6 October 2012: Manchester’s Perfect Buildings: A Tour Through The Ages
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
The Manchester Literary Tours
A brace of tours that proved so popular in Manchester Literature Festival last year. These look at Manchester in words - prose and verse, seriously and humorously, in fact and in fiction. They cover Gaskell, Dickens, De Quincey, Burgess, Jacobson, Morrissey and many more of the famous and the forgotten.
3pm 21 April 2012 - South city centre route
Meet outside John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, City centre, M3 3EH
Manchester's Original Pub Tours
The funniest pub tours in the country, absurd yet factual roller-coasters slurping across two hundred years of Manchester's drinking history. Daft quiz at the end with very few questions and prizes to follow. The tours cover various areas in the city centre.
6pm Thursday 7 June 2012 - South central
6pm Thursday 6 September 2012 - North central
6pm Thursday 4 October 2012 - East central
6pm Thursday 1 November 2012 - West central
6pm Thursday 6 December 2012 - The Big Fun Christmas Pub Walk
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
TUNNEL TOURS CAN BE BOOKED AND PAID FOR BELOW
Most tours are £7 per head. All tours can be adapted for corporate guests as well. Full booking and other details are located at the foot of this page. For a daily picture and building fact follow @JonathSchofield
A Tour Of Uninteresting Objects
Ah yes, the unregarded things that make a city. This tour reveals odd sculptures, mad details, washed up remnants of things inside and outside buildings. It’s different – guaranteed. Each tour will tackle a different area of the city centre and environs and uncover massive quantities of uninteresting objects.
Saturday 1 September 2012, Part 6,3.30pm, 1.30pm; Saturday 6 October 2012, Part 7,3.30pm Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL
The Secret, Naughty Route Tour
Contact me via email or phone to ask about this tour which is exciting but needs waterproofs, torches, a good level of fitness, an early morning start (6am) but guarantees a very unusual view of Manchester.
Meet Little Peter Street/ Medlock Street junction, City centre
The Peterloo Massacre Tour
16 August, 1819: the moment that defines the British struggle for democracy, the day that coined a phrase and stirred a nation. The tour takes in the key locations associated with the mass protest meeting in central Manchester that ended in death and mayhem.
11.30am Saturday 3 March 2012
Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL
Friedrich Engels in Manchester
Engels, with Karl Marx, was the father of communism. The 22 years he spent in Manchester shaped his thoughts and ideas. As the well-known historian Asa Briggs said, ‘If Engels had lived not in Manchester...his conception of class and his theories of the role of class might have been very different. In this case Marx might have been not a communist but a currency reformer. The fact that Manchester was taken to be the symbol of the age in the 1840s was of central importance in modern world history.’ These tours follow Engels footsteps around the city on two routes.
1.30pm Saturday 1 September 2012: Engels and central Manchester
6pm Wednesday 28 November 2012: Engels birthday tour covering the south and east of the city centre
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
S**t Happens
A tour of the down and out side of Manchester, the profane, the vulgar, the darkness. But it’s not all depressing and distressing. Light always shines through. Humour is never far away. Come along if you dare. Different routes are followed on each of these tours.
1pm 7 July 2012
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
Architecture in Manchester
Manchester is a lexicon of architecture. It mixes and matches styles and buildings with a crazy and haphazard panache. But there is a pattern. These tours look at the different periods of building in the city and explain how the city developed and is still developing. One tour looks at the perfect Manchester buildings.
1pm Saturday 17 March 2012: Georgian and early-Victorian Manchester up to 1850
1pm Saturday 21 April 2012: Buildings from 1850-1914
3pm Saturday 7 July 2012: Architecture from 1914 to 2012
3pm Saturday 6 October 2012: Manchester’s Perfect Buildings: A Tour Through The Ages
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
The Manchester Literary Tours
A brace of tours that proved so popular in Manchester Literature Festival last year. These look at Manchester in words - prose and verse, seriously and humorously, in fact and in fiction. They cover Gaskell, Dickens, De Quincey, Burgess, Jacobson, Morrissey and many more of the famous and the forgotten.
3pm 21 April 2012 - South city centre route
Meet outside John Rylands Library, 150 Deansgate, City centre, M3 3EH
Manchester's Original Pub Tours
The funniest pub tours in the country, absurd yet factual roller-coasters slurping across two hundred years of Manchester's drinking history. Daft quiz at the end with very few questions and prizes to follow. The tours cover various areas in the city centre.
6pm Thursday 7 June 2012 - South central
6pm Thursday 6 September 2012 - North central
6pm Thursday 4 October 2012 - East central
6pm Thursday 1 November 2012 - West central
6pm Thursday 6 December 2012 - The Big Fun Christmas Pub Walk
Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT
Payment details
Discounts: if you wish to buy ten or more tours you can have a 20% discount, contact jgschofield@btinternet.com . For gift vouchers for presents and celebrations contact jgschofield@btinternet.com All tickets for the public walks are £7, concessions £6. There are corporate rates on application. To pay for tickets in advance pay via Paypal to my address jgschofield@btinternet.com specifying which tour you wish to take part on. TO BOOK BY PHONE SEE THE CONTACT DETAILS IN 'MY CONTACT DETAILS' Or email jgschofield@btinternet.com On most walks you can always just turn up and join the tour as well. I also conduct and organise the Haunted Underworld and Great Northern Tunnel Tours see below.
Great Northern Tunnel Tours
These have to be booked ahead but are very very special, leading people into the atmospheric underworld of Manchester under the Great Northern Goods Warehouse. They are visually stunning but tell a moving story. Bring a torch and wear sensible shoes as the tunnel is dark and there is some mud. The tour is suitable for people in good health, capable of walking down stairs to access the tunnel. The tour lasts just over an hour.Tuesday 17 April from 5pm, Sunday 22 April from 5pm, Thursday 26 April from 5pm, Sunday 29 April from 5pm. Tuesday 15 May from 5pm, Thursday 17 May from 5pm, Sunday 20 May, from 5pm, Sunday 27 May from 5pm, Tuesday 12 June from 5pm, Thursday 14 June from 5pm, Sunday 17 June from 5pm, Sunday 24 June from 5pm.
Meet outside The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3WS .
YOU CAN BUY THESE TUNNEL TOURS DIRECT BELOW THROUGH PAYPAL
Meet outside The Bridgewater Hall, Lower Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3WS .
YOU CAN BUY THESE TUNNEL TOURS DIRECT BELOW THROUGH PAYPAL
Manchester Town Hall from Cloud 23, the Beetham Tower bar
German guests at The Quays, I'm on the left in the suit
