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JONATHAN SCHOFIELD TOURS
2024/2025 This calendar has more than ninety Greater Manchester tours covering more than forty themes for 2025. More than any other operator. Public tours coming up. All the tours are available as private or corporate tours. This is what people are saying about the tours. This is a 2024 podcast called We Built This City with Lisa Morton of Roland Dransfield Buy three beautiful Mcr books by Jonathan Schofleld here. Discussing the Manchester Bee on Radio 5 Live here. You can read a profile of Jonathan Schofield here in The Guardian. Most tours are dog-friendly |
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.’
‘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.’