Jonathan Schofield Manchester Tours

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You can read a profile of Jonathan Schofield here in The Guardian.

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  • Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk ValleyAir, Scuttlers, Lost Churches and Hidden Stories
  • Tour Diary: Confessions of a guide
  • Every tour in pictures and some words
  • Ghost tours - spooks guaranteed
  • Exclusive: 35 King St & Georgian Manchester
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station tours
  • Heaton Hall and Park Tour
  • The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
  • Suffragettes, Women & Manchester
  • Totally Manchester - a general tour of the city
  • Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
  • EXCLUSIVE: Refuge/ Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Boldest Building' Tour, Edgar Wood Centre
  • Secret Tunnels Tour
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  • EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and College House
  • EXCLUSIVE Hallé St Peter’s & Ancoats Tour NEW
  • Manchester books by Jonathan Schofield
  • The Death & Beer Tour for the Not Quite Light Festival
  • First Wednesday Spinningfields Series 2020
  • Oxford Road Corridor/ University district tour
  • Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
  • Castlefield, St Johns, First Street
  • Didsbury, Kersal, Quays tours
  • Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
  • The Prestwich Tour: The surprising Manchester series
  • Some Published Articles On Manchester's Present, its Heritage and Tourism
  • The Northern Quarter & Ancoats Tour
  • Friedrich Engels And Karl Marx Tours
  • ​Chorlton tour
  • The Rollicking Pub Tour
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Old Trafford
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Bradford & Clayton
  • EXCLUSIVE: Kampus tours, the abandoned warehouses
  • Magical Manchester Mystery Tour - by bike
  • Incredible Interiors
  • Chapel Street and The Irwell: The Tour
  • The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
  • Shock, Surprise, Prose & Verse: Manchester and Literature
  • April Fool's Day Tour - The Incredibly Serious Tour
  • Ford Madox Brown and Pre-Raphaelite Manchester
  • The Day The World Got Smaller Tour
  • Platt Fields, Birch Fields and Rusholme Tour
  • Podcasts
  • Peterloo Massacre: The Reality & The Drama
  • Lost Graveyards and the Dead
  • Truly Madly Brutal
  • Return to 1421: The Old Towne and Medieval Manchester
  • City of Science Tours July 2016
  • Suggested Private Tours
  • The River at Dusk - Friday 18 May
  • Literary Manchester: A city in words
  • Anthony Burgess and Literary Manchester Tour
  • Great Northern Tunnel Tour
  • 1840s Manchester: The Key Decade, talk and tour
  • Burns Night Tour Monday 25 January
  • Fire Station Tours: Calling Photographers & Sketchers
  • Manchester City of Art Tour
  • Valentine's Day tour 14 February
  • Manchester Statues, 20 July
  • The Gallery
  • Tours deals 2 for £20, 3 for £30
  • The Ghosts of Afflecks & the Northern Quarter
  • December seven day city centre series
TOURS NEWS

The tours are returning, those for April and early May (to next roadmap date of May 17) are up now and all include a refreshing treat at the conclusion. There will be a full May-September programme by the evening of Sunday 11 April.

BUT Zoom tours are available right now.


CLICK HERE for a calendar of all upcoming tours both walking and virtual.

This is what people are saying about the tours. 


My first YouTube video is available now on YouTube

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Calendar of public walking tours from late summer in 2020
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Here's my favourite quote about Manchester in its nascent industrial days from Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society in 1785. 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.’


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