The Calendar of Public Walks
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2022
Saturday 1 January
Noon EXCLUSIVE: A New Year's Day walk
A stroll around the city talking about its significance, the people, the humour and the music.
Saturday 15 January
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel (formerly The Refuge Assurance) Tours
One of the greatest terracotta wonders of the UK with stories to match. A tour of jawdropping architecture mixed with anecdote and gossip.
Saturday 22 January
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.
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 January
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.
DUE TO REPAIR WORK THE HEATON HALL TOURS WON'T START UNTIL 27 FEBRUARY
Saturday 5 February
10.30am 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.
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 12 February
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 13 February
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.
DUE TO REPAIR WORK THE HEATON HALL TOURS WON'T START UNTIL 27 FEBRUARY
Saturday 19 February
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 26 February
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 27 February
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 5 March
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 12 March
10.30pm EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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.
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 13 March
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 19 March
11.30am 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 20 March
12.30pm EXCLUSIVE: Inside Ordsall Hall: the guided tour
(plus a short walk and history of Manchester Ship Canal)
3pm Sleazy & Sinister Manchester
It's grubby, it's funny and it's really worth coming along.
Saturday 26 March
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.
Sunday 27 March
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.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Friday 1 April
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The April Fools Day, mad tour
An extremely silly tour in and out of pubs telling absurd stories about Manchester. A prize for the guests who correctly identify the four bogus stories out of twenty or so.
Saturday 9 April
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 10 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 16 April
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.
Saturday 23 April
10.30am 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.
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 30 April
10.30am Secrets of Knutsford
An amazing town with amazing architecture and great 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.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Thursday 5 May
6pm Engels & Marx in Manchester
On the occasion of Karl Marx's 204th 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.
Saturday 7 May
10am The Irk Valley & Angel Meadow
This is a fabulous area to explore with an impossible bridge and an improbable hill plus rich historical stories and lots of humour.
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 8 May
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 14 May
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 21 May
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 22 May
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 28 May
10.30am The Secret of Fairfield Moravian Settlement and area
One of the most delightful surprises across this conurbation of 2.8m people is the hidden corner that is Fairfield Moravian Settlement. If you've never been you'll be fascinated by this atmospheric location.
2pm The Death & Beer Tour
A tour around Weaste cemetery with Salford’s noble dead, finishing off in a beer tap with the Marble’s noble beers.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 4 June
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.
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.
Sunday 19 June
10am The Bicycle Magical Mystery Tour: The Surprising Manchester Series
Three and half hours of fun on a route around the city centre that is full of surprises and full of green spaces.
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.
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 excursion through tunnels and culverts under the city.
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.
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.
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.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Saturday 13 August
10am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
Sunday 14 August
10am Castlefield, St John's and Deansgate Square
Rich history and monumental present in which change has been the only constant.
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.
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.
Sunday 11 September
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.
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.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
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.
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.
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.
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.
Saturday 1 January
Noon EXCLUSIVE: A New Year's Day walk
A stroll around the city talking about its significance, the people, the humour and the music.
Saturday 15 January
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Kimpton Clocktower Hotel (formerly The Refuge Assurance) Tours
One of the greatest terracotta wonders of the UK with stories to match. A tour of jawdropping architecture mixed with anecdote and gossip.
Saturday 22 January
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.
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 January
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.
DUE TO REPAIR WORK THE HEATON HALL TOURS WON'T START UNTIL 27 FEBRUARY
Saturday 5 February
10.30am 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.
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 12 February
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 13 February
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.
DUE TO REPAIR WORK THE HEATON HALL TOURS WON'T START UNTIL 27 FEBRUARY
Saturday 19 February
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 26 February
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 27 February
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 5 March
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 12 March
10.30pm EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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.
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 13 March
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 19 March
11.30am 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 20 March
12.30pm EXCLUSIVE: Inside Ordsall Hall: the guided tour
(plus a short walk and history of Manchester Ship Canal)
3pm Sleazy & Sinister Manchester
It's grubby, it's funny and it's really worth coming along.
Saturday 26 March
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.
Sunday 27 March
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.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Friday 1 April
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The April Fools Day, mad tour
An extremely silly tour in and out of pubs telling absurd stories about Manchester. A prize for the guests who correctly identify the four bogus stories out of twenty or so.
Saturday 9 April
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 10 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 16 April
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.
Saturday 23 April
10.30am 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.
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 30 April
10.30am Secrets of Knutsford
An amazing town with amazing architecture and great 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.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Thursday 5 May
6pm Engels & Marx in Manchester
On the occasion of Karl Marx's 204th 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.
Saturday 7 May
10am The Irk Valley & Angel Meadow
This is a fabulous area to explore with an impossible bridge and an improbable hill plus rich historical stories and lots of humour.
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 8 May
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 14 May
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: One of the UK’s 'Boldest Buildings', The Edgar Wood
An amazing building, an eccentric architect, a radical woman and a very special Spanish lady plus a little about Victoria Park.
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 21 May
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 22 May
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 28 May
10.30am The Secret of Fairfield Moravian Settlement and area
One of the most delightful surprises across this conurbation of 2.8m people is the hidden corner that is Fairfield Moravian Settlement. If you've never been you'll be fascinated by this atmospheric location.
2pm The Death & Beer Tour
A tour around Weaste cemetery with Salford’s noble dead, finishing off in a beer tap with the Marble’s noble beers.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 4 June
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.
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.
Sunday 19 June
10am The Bicycle Magical Mystery Tour: The Surprising Manchester Series
Three and half hours of fun on a route around the city centre that is full of surprises and full of green spaces.
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.
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 excursion through tunnels and culverts under the city.
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.
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.
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.
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
Saturday 13 August
10am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
Sunday 14 August
10am Castlefield, St John's and Deansgate Square
Rich history and monumental present in which change has been the only constant.
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.
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.
Sunday 11 September
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.
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.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
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.
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.
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.
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.