The 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. It will we promise be massively uninteresting. Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL 10 minutes before your tour time. Every third Saturday of the month at 3.30pm from March, various routes.To book click here.
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 with few questions and but great prizes to follow. The tours cover various areas in the city centre. Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT 10 minutes before your tour time. To book click here.
Haunted Underworld - the best ghost tour in Manchester
Manchester’s premier ghost tour, delivering dark, dastardly and moving haunted tales based on fact and reality. So what happens? In a dark and mysterious undercroft of the city centre old stories are coming alive. Tales might include those of dead artists, sinister magicians, tragic lovers and body-snatchers. Expect the unexpected and also lots of laughs. People who are brave enough to come on the tour should try not to faint (something that happened last time). “I would like to thank Jonathan Schofield for scaring the bejesus out of me on the Haunted Underworld tour last night.” Andrew Jackson, Import Manager. Meet at the War Memorial in St Ann's Square, 10 minutes before your tour time. Click here to booking dates.
Great Northern Tunnel Tours
UNFORTUNATELY THESE TOURS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY BY THE SITE OWNERS. THE ONLY UNDERGROUND TOUR AVAILABLE AT PRESENT IS THE HAUNTED UNDERWORLD TOUR ABOVE. 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. On one of my tours we also maybe spotted a ghost If you feel tempted then remember to bring a torch and wear sensible shoes as the tunnel is dark and there is some mud. But if you're in good health and capable of walking down (and back up) fifty or so stairs to access the tunnel then you're in for an unforgettable experience. The tour lasts just over an hour. Dates confirmed for April, May and June. Click here to book.
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. Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT 10 minutes before your tour time. 6pm Thursday 28 November 2013: Engels’ birthday tour. Click here to book.
The Secret, Naughty (Wet and Dark) Tour
Details are secret, but there really is nothing like this on offer in the North. Guests will need waterproofs, torches, a good level of fitness and be ready for an early morning start. The price for the tour is £10 and includes basic torches, plus a printed history of the route given at the end of the tour. Saturday 16 July, 6am. Click here to book.
Halloween Tours
We take an excursion into a surprise location and tell more ghost stories of Manchester, old and new, ghostly and demonic. There will be tours taking place throughout Halloween night and we promise you’ll be doing something you’ll never have done in the city centre. We really hope so anyway. Meet outside John Rylands Library, Thursday 31 October. £8. Three tours, 5.30pm, 7pm and one late night pub ghost tour starting at 9pm. Click here to book.
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. Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL. £8. 11.30am Saturday 17 August 2013. Click here to book.
For most tours just turn up and pay although pre-bookings will have priority. Corporate tours and educational tours are also available. For gift vouchers for presents and celebrations contact jgschofield@btinternet.com 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.
CONTACT: call me on 07876235638, email me on jgschofield@btinternet.com. Follow me on @JonathSchofield
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. It will we promise be massively uninteresting. Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL 10 minutes before your tour time. Every third Saturday of the month at 3.30pm from March, various routes.To book click here.
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 with few questions and but great prizes to follow. The tours cover various areas in the city centre. Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT 10 minutes before your tour time. To book click here.
Haunted Underworld - the best ghost tour in Manchester
Manchester’s premier ghost tour, delivering dark, dastardly and moving haunted tales based on fact and reality. So what happens? In a dark and mysterious undercroft of the city centre old stories are coming alive. Tales might include those of dead artists, sinister magicians, tragic lovers and body-snatchers. Expect the unexpected and also lots of laughs. People who are brave enough to come on the tour should try not to faint (something that happened last time). “I would like to thank Jonathan Schofield for scaring the bejesus out of me on the Haunted Underworld tour last night.” Andrew Jackson, Import Manager. Meet at the War Memorial in St Ann's Square, 10 minutes before your tour time. Click here to booking dates.
Great Northern Tunnel Tours
UNFORTUNATELY THESE TOURS HAVE BEEN SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY BY THE SITE OWNERS. THE ONLY UNDERGROUND TOUR AVAILABLE AT PRESENT IS THE HAUNTED UNDERWORLD TOUR ABOVE. 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. On one of my tours we also maybe spotted a ghost If you feel tempted then remember to bring a torch and wear sensible shoes as the tunnel is dark and there is some mud. But if you're in good health and capable of walking down (and back up) fifty or so stairs to access the tunnel then you're in for an unforgettable experience. The tour lasts just over an hour. Dates confirmed for April, May and June. Click here to book.
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. Meet outside Manchester Visitor Information Centre, Portland Street, City centre, M1 4BT 10 minutes before your tour time. 6pm Thursday 28 November 2013: Engels’ birthday tour. Click here to book.
The Secret, Naughty (Wet and Dark) Tour
Details are secret, but there really is nothing like this on offer in the North. Guests will need waterproofs, torches, a good level of fitness and be ready for an early morning start. The price for the tour is £10 and includes basic torches, plus a printed history of the route given at the end of the tour. Saturday 16 July, 6am. Click here to book.
Halloween Tours
We take an excursion into a surprise location and tell more ghost stories of Manchester, old and new, ghostly and demonic. There will be tours taking place throughout Halloween night and we promise you’ll be doing something you’ll never have done in the city centre. We really hope so anyway. Meet outside John Rylands Library, Thursday 31 October. £8. Three tours, 5.30pm, 7pm and one late night pub ghost tour starting at 9pm. Click here to book.
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. Meet outside Manchester Art Gallery, Mosley Street, City centre, M2 3JL. £8. 11.30am Saturday 17 August 2013. Click here to book.
For most tours just turn up and pay although pre-bookings will have priority. Corporate tours and educational tours are also available. For gift vouchers for presents and celebrations contact jgschofield@btinternet.com 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.
CONTACT: call me on 07876235638, email me on jgschofield@btinternet.com. Follow me on @JonathSchofield
