The Calendar of Public Walks
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2022
Saturday 11 June
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
Tuesday 14 June
6pm Lost & Imagined Manchester: a Free Zoom Tour
Another look at some of the remarkable and significant buildings and streets that have disappeared across Greater Manchester and some of the amazing things that were imagined yet never happened. Tune in and relax from your own computer. Email: event@jonathanschofieldtours.com for an invitation.
Friday 17 June
Noon The Best Anthology of Libraries in the UK: A Guided Tour
This Manchester City of Literature tour for The Festival of Libraries visits the classic four of Manchester, Central Library, Portico Library, John Rylands Library and Chetham’s Library. Book direct through Eventbrite. Just £5.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 18 June
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 19 June
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 25 June
10.30am The Didsbury Tour
A trip around this lively area of the city revealing fascinating facts, curious buildings and fine buildings and lots of local personalities.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 26 June
7am EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tunnels Tour
You have to be fit and you have to have waders but this is a very special totally bizarre
1pm Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands, Sale
POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR
Start at Sale Cemetery with so many illustrious dead, then to beautiful Walton Gardens and we finish in a pub for more chat and stories - and beer, if you wish.
Saturday 2 July
10.30am The Quays & MediaCity
Grand modern architecture, great stories from the past and present and a future - the Quays is a landscape unlike any other area in UK inland cities.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 3 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 9 July
10.30am The Secrets of Chapel Street and Greengate
Remarkable stories, exclusive access to a cracking tower high above the twin cities and entrance into a seventeenth century building.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
1pm Exclusive, The Mayfield Station Tour
A tour around this fascinating site with its huge dark spaces and great views from the platform levels. The stories are rich, sometimes amusing and even occasionally spooky.
Saturday 16 July
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 17 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 23 July
10am Alexandra Park and Whalley Range
A fine park and a fascinating suburb with loads of stories to tell, there'll be music too.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 30 July
10am Secrets of Knutsford
An amazing town with amazing architecture and great stories.
2pm EXCLUSIVE: Salford Lads Club Tour
(plus Middlewood Locks and Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal)
The finest and last lads' club in the country with stunning interiors and moving stories.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 31 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Saturday 6 August
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: Halle St Peter's & Ancoats Tour
Halle St Peters combines a beautiful 1850s church and a glorious 2018 extension. Guests get to take an exclusive look around the building and then take a spin around fascinating Ancoats.
Saturday 13 August
10am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 14 August
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
2pm Castlefield, St John's and Deansgate Square
Rich history and monumental present in which change has been the only constant.
Sunday 24 April
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 27 August
10.30am The Chorlton Tour
A trip around this lively area of the city revealing fascinating facts, interesting buildings and even an important tomb.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 28 August
7am EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tunnels Tour
You have to be fit and you have to have waders but this is a very special totally bizarre excursion through tunnels and culverts under the city.
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 3 September
10.30am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 10 September
10am Secrets of Rochdale town centre
Rochdale has a spectacular Esplanade with one of the great Town Halls in the country but there's much more to the town including some splendid interiors that this tour will explore.
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 11 September
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
2pm Kersal Moor and the River Woods: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford series)
An urban yet rural tour crossing over one of the oldest continuously used sporting grounds in the UK, and one full of curious human stories, a richly populated graveyard and a pretty and antique building.
Saturday 17 September
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
3pm The Day the World Got Smaller: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
Three days before the 190th anniversary, this tour looks at the day the Railway Age began in speed, smoke and blood.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 18 September
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
A special building, a great history and a totally remarkable story of reinvention. Get the lowdown on a beautiful structure in east Manchester.
Thursday 22 September
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 24 September
10.30am Truly Madly Brutal
The architecture of the sixties and seventies is often derided and sometimes that is justified but there are also splendid examples in Manchester that were built in an atmosphere of hope and excitement.
1pm Secrets of Middleton
A small town with a big punch: an ancient pub, a pair of superb churches, a cute Elizabethan grammar school and incredibly progressive Edgar Wood architecture. This tour will really surprise guests.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 25 September
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 8 October
10.30am The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
We miss so much strolling the city centre because they aren't obvious yet often they provide delight and real insights into the story of Manchester and the country. Come on this tour to find out about some of the secrets of the city.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 9 October
12.30pm EXCLUSIVE: Inside Ordsall Hall: the guided tour
(plus a short walk and history of Manchester Ship Canal)
Saturday 15 October
10.30am The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
The city was at the heart of the anti-slavery movements in the UK and Empire yet its mainstay product, cotton, was largely slave-picked. Epic history and a contradiction explored.
3pm Suffragettes, Women & the City: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
In October the Suffragettes raised their first ‘Votes for Women’ banner. This was an epic moment in the fight for equal rights, this tour marks that and so many other heroic moments.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Thursday 22 October
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 22 October
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 30 October
3pm Engels & Marx in Manchester
A couple of days after Friedrich Engels' birthday we trace the story of two men and Manchester’s role in creating a world ideology. Friedrich Engels', co-author of The Communist Manifesto, lived for 22 years in the city and Marx would visit him for long periods.
Monday 31 October
6pm/8pm Halloween The Ghosts of Manchester – spooks guaranteed
A rip-roaring and fascinating tour of the haunted areas of Manchester, finishing in a dark place for a surprise.
Thursday 23 November
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 10 December
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
More tours will be announced soon
Please check the website 24 hours before the tours
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Saturday 11 June
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
Tuesday 14 June
6pm Lost & Imagined Manchester: a Free Zoom Tour
Another look at some of the remarkable and significant buildings and streets that have disappeared across Greater Manchester and some of the amazing things that were imagined yet never happened. Tune in and relax from your own computer. Email: event@jonathanschofieldtours.com for an invitation.
Friday 17 June
Noon The Best Anthology of Libraries in the UK: A Guided Tour
This Manchester City of Literature tour for The Festival of Libraries visits the classic four of Manchester, Central Library, Portico Library, John Rylands Library and Chetham’s Library. Book direct through Eventbrite. Just £5.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 18 June
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 19 June
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 25 June
10.30am The Didsbury Tour
A trip around this lively area of the city revealing fascinating facts, curious buildings and fine buildings and lots of local personalities.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 26 June
7am EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tunnels Tour
You have to be fit and you have to have waders but this is a very special totally bizarre
1pm Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands, Sale
POSTPONED UNTIL LATER IN THE YEAR
Start at Sale Cemetery with so many illustrious dead, then to beautiful Walton Gardens and we finish in a pub for more chat and stories - and beer, if you wish.
Saturday 2 July
10.30am The Quays & MediaCity
Grand modern architecture, great stories from the past and present and a future - the Quays is a landscape unlike any other area in UK inland cities.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 3 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 9 July
10.30am The Secrets of Chapel Street and Greengate
Remarkable stories, exclusive access to a cracking tower high above the twin cities and entrance into a seventeenth century building.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
1pm Exclusive, The Mayfield Station Tour
A tour around this fascinating site with its huge dark spaces and great views from the platform levels. The stories are rich, sometimes amusing and even occasionally spooky.
Saturday 16 July
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 17 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 23 July
10am Alexandra Park and Whalley Range
A fine park and a fascinating suburb with loads of stories to tell, there'll be music too.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 30 July
10am Secrets of Knutsford
An amazing town with amazing architecture and great stories.
2pm EXCLUSIVE: Salford Lads Club Tour
(plus Middlewood Locks and Manchester, Bolton and Bury Canal)
The finest and last lads' club in the country with stunning interiors and moving stories.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 31 July
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Saturday 6 August
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: Halle St Peter's & Ancoats Tour
Halle St Peters combines a beautiful 1850s church and a glorious 2018 extension. Guests get to take an exclusive look around the building and then take a spin around fascinating Ancoats.
Saturday 13 August
10am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 14 August
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
2pm Castlefield, St John's and Deansgate Square
Rich history and monumental present in which change has been the only constant.
Sunday 24 April
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 27 August
10.30am The Chorlton Tour
A trip around this lively area of the city revealing fascinating facts, interesting buildings and even an important tomb.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 28 August
7am EXCLUSIVE: The Secret Tunnels Tour
You have to be fit and you have to have waders but this is a very special totally bizarre excursion through tunnels and culverts under the city.
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
Saturday 3 September
10.30am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 10 September
10am Secrets of Rochdale town centre
Rochdale has a spectacular Esplanade with one of the great Town Halls in the country but there's much more to the town including some splendid interiors that this tour will explore.
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 11 September
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
2pm Kersal Moor and the River Woods: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford series)
An urban yet rural tour crossing over one of the oldest continuously used sporting grounds in the UK, and one full of curious human stories, a richly populated graveyard and a pretty and antique building.
Saturday 17 September
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
3pm The Day the World Got Smaller: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
Three days before the 190th anniversary, this tour looks at the day the Railway Age began in speed, smoke and blood.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 18 September
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
A special building, a great history and a totally remarkable story of reinvention. Get the lowdown on a beautiful structure in east Manchester.
Thursday 22 September
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 24 September
10.30am Truly Madly Brutal
The architecture of the sixties and seventies is often derided and sometimes that is justified but there are also splendid examples in Manchester that were built in an atmosphere of hope and excitement.
1pm Secrets of Middleton
A small town with a big punch: an ancient pub, a pair of superb churches, a cute Elizabethan grammar school and incredibly progressive Edgar Wood architecture. This tour will really surprise guests.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 25 September
11am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Heaton Hall and Park
This is a love story in stone, the passion between a young married couple turned into architecture. At the same time the utterly stunning interiors are all about music, so naturally amongst the lovely stories there will be playing music. This is one tour not to miss.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 8 October
10.30am The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
We miss so much strolling the city centre because they aren't obvious yet often they provide delight and real insights into the story of Manchester and the country. Come on this tour to find out about some of the secrets of the city.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 9 October
12.30pm EXCLUSIVE: Inside Ordsall Hall: the guided tour
(plus a short walk and history of Manchester Ship Canal)
Saturday 15 October
10.30am The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
The city was at the heart of the anti-slavery movements in the UK and Empire yet its mainstay product, cotton, was largely slave-picked. Epic history and a contradiction explored.
3pm Suffragettes, Women & the City: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
In October the Suffragettes raised their first ‘Votes for Women’ banner. This was an epic moment in the fight for equal rights, this tour marks that and so many other heroic moments.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Thursday 22 October
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 22 October
10am Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel Tour (Refuge Assurance)
The most spectacular terracotta building in the North of England. The Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel is a beauty and on this tour you learn its secrets.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 30 October
3pm Engels & Marx in Manchester
A couple of days after Friedrich Engels' birthday we trace the story of two men and Manchester’s role in creating a world ideology. Friedrich Engels', co-author of The Communist Manifesto, lived for 22 years in the city and Marx would visit him for long periods.
Monday 31 October
6pm/8pm Halloween The Ghosts of Manchester – spooks guaranteed
A rip-roaring and fascinating tour of the haunted areas of Manchester, finishing in a dark place for a surprise.
Thursday 23 November
3pm EXCLUSIVE: Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
Interior visits to superb buildings old and so brand new the polish still shows through. Some of these places will make your jaw drop. There are wonderful stories of truly world-changing importance.
Saturday 10 December
1pm Secrets of Ancoats and New Islington
Has any area of the UK been transformed so utterly than this fascinating area of mills, canals, new development and controversy? The answer is no. So join me for a stroll around the most interesting urban story in modern Britain with an extra special visit inside an 1820s mill.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday; The Manchester Ghost Walkabout 5pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
More tours will be announced soon
Please check the website 24 hours before the tours
Your Paypal receipt is your ticket, the receipt may have gone into you spam folder so please check that if you can't find it in your main email inbox.