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 2019 CALENDAR
There's always a new tour on the way

Saturday 29 June 
11am Discover Manchester 
12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings EXCLUSIVE ACCESS
3pm Explore Altrincham tour

Sunday 30 June
NEW 3pm Didsbury Tour: The surprising Manchester series NEW

4-21 July MIF I will be the official guide of Manchester International Festival, you can book here.  

Saturday 6 July 
10.30am and 12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings
3pm The Tour of Uninteresting Objects

Sunday 21 July
NEW 6am The Secret Tunnels Tour: you will get wet NEW
11am Discover Manchester
NEW 3pm The Universities & the beautiful garden squares NEW

Saturday 27 July
12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings
NEW 3pm Daft Manchester: A Ridiculous Tour NEW

​Sunday 28 July
6am The Secret Tunnels Tour: you will get wet

Saturday 3 August
NEW 10.30am The Ghosts of Afflecks & A Northern Quarter Tour NEW

Saturday 10 August
12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings
NEW 10.30am The Ghosts of Afflecks & A Northern Quarter Tour NEW

​Sunday 11 August
6am The Secret Tunnels Tour: you will get wet

Monday 19 August
11am Discover Manchester

Friday 16 August
6pm Peterloo: The Reality & Drama  

Saturday 24 August
12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings
NEW 10.30am The Ghosts Afflecks & A Northern Quarter Tour NEW

Tuesday 27 August
11am Discover Manchester
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Saturday 31 August 
10.30am and 12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
3pm Truly Madly Brutal

Sunday 1 September
12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
NEW 2pm Kersal Moor & the River Woods: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford) Series NEW

Saturday 7 September
10.30am and 12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
3pm The Principal Hotel Tour

Friday 13 September
11am Discover Manchester

Saturday 14 September
10.30am and 12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
3pm Whalley Range & Alexandra Park: drama, pop & politics

Sunday 15 September
3pm The Day the World Got Smaller

Saturday 21 September
12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings

Sunday 22 September
11am Discover Manchester
NEW 2pm The Quays, MediaCity & Trafford Wharf: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford & Trafford) Series NEW

Saturday 28 September
10.30am and 12.30pm Chetham's Library & Medieval Buildings
NEW 3pm Bombed & Besieged Manchester at War NEW
3pm Explore Altrincham tour (with another guide)

Sunday 29 September
NEW 10am Manchester Bike Tour NEW

Saturday 5 October
12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
3pm The Incredible Interiors Tour


Saturday 12 October
NEW 10.30am The Ghosts of Afflecks & A Northern Quarter Tour NEW
12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings
3pm Suffragettes, Women & Manchester

Saturday 19 October
10.30am The Principal Hotel Tour
12.30pm Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings

Thursday 31 October
5.30pm, 7pm, 9pm Halloween Tours 

More tours will be announced soon


What guests say
Here's my favourite quote about Manchester in its nascent industrial days from Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1875. Its meaning is self-evident and although it refers to science the sentiment applies to every other field of endeavour. 

‘Men, however great their learning often become indolent and unambitious to improve in knowledge for want of associating with others of similar talents and improvements. But science, like fire, is put in motion by collision. Where a number of such men have frequent opportunities of meeting and conversing together, thought begets thought, and every hint is turned to advantage. A spirit of enquiry glows in every breast.’