The Calendar of Public Walks
Second half of the year tours to be posted soon.
More tours than any other guide.
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Not all tours will be conducted by Jonathan Schofield
All the tours are available as private or corporate tours
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Calender of tours 2023
REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
2023
Sunday 1 January
Noon New Year's Day Tour
Start 2023 with a fresh, informative and amusing tour of the city.
Saturday 7 January
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 8 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.
Saturday 14 January
11am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 21 January
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 4 February
1030am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 11 February
10am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town. Fine buildings to see, music to listen to, tragedies to weep over and how to count your life by moons.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 12 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.
Saturday 18 February
10am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college.
1pm Manchester: The Necropolis
Rattle his bones over the stones; he’s only a pauper, whom nobody owns'. A tour around city centre’s secret and not so secret graveyards telling tales on the deceased.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 19 February
10.30am Mayfield Tour
A spectacular old rail depot now host to a multiplicity of events awaits on this tour. The stories are moving and often funny. We also visit the brand new and gorgeous park that opened in 2022.
Thursday 23 February
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 11 March
10am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college. There are just five tours this autumn for guests to get the lowdown or relive memories of the great gigs and other events that have taken place here.
Sunday 12 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 18 March
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 19 March
11am 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.
Saturday 1 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 8 April
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.
1pm The Secrets of Chorlton: The Surprising Manchester Series
From a hamlet on a road to nowhere to desirable suburb the story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a fascinating tale of people, places and events. This tour will explore the characters that inhabited the suburb, the good, the bad and the ugly.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 15 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 19 April
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: John Rylands Library and the People's History Museum
Saturday 22 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 29 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 6 May
10.30am 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.
5pm Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in Manchester
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx were the fathers of communism. Engels lived, on and off, for 22 years in Manchester and during this time Marx would stay with Engels for long periods. The remarkable table of two men who changed the political world is told on the this tour, the day after Karl Marx's birthday.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 13 May
10am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 14 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 20 May
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 24 May
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: dark deeds and world changing events
Thursday 25 May
POSTPONED UNTIL 14 SEPTEMBER. SEPTEMBER. ALL GUESTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EMAILED AND REFUNDED
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 27 May
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Monday 29 May
Noon The First Street tour – People, Music, Arts, Mills
Manchester Flower Festival
Famous names are commemorated in First Street. We ask why. There are also tales of cotton mills, music and much more.
Saturday 3 June
10am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town. Fine buildings to see, music to listen to, tragedies to weep over and how to count your life by moons.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 4 June
11am 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.
Saturday 10 June
10.30am: Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
A story of how the city was formed and the forces that shaped it.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 17 June
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 Manchester: The Necropolis
'Rattle his bones over the stones; he’s only a pauper, whom nobody owns'. A tour around city centre’s secret and not so secret graveyards telling tales on the deceased.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 21 June
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: Bright lights, big plans, and a world-famous University is born
Saturday 24 June
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 25 June
THIS IS POSTPONED FOR A WEEK DURING TO EXCESS WATER
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 experience.
3pm Friday 30 June
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
3pm Saturday 1 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 2 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Tuesday 4 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Thursday 6 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Saturday 8 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Sunday 9 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Tuesday 11 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Wednesday 12 July
1-2pm Lost & Imagined Manchester: A talk with incredible images on the National Trust Viaduct
This special occasion will take the right line about life on the high line with a talk about some of the amazing buildings we have lost and some of the outrageous schemes that were never completed.
Thursday 13 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Tues 15 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Saturday 22 July
10.30am Alexandra Park and Whalley Range
A fine park and a fascinating suburb with loads of stories to tell, there'll be music too.
Saturday 5 August
10.30am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 6 August
11am The Secrets of Littleborough
A walking tour of a remarkable little town exploring old halls, charming streets, canals and railways.
Saturday 12 August
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 13 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.
Saturday 19 August
10.30am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
Saturday 26 August
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 2 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.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 9 September
10am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Thursday 14 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 16 September
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.
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 23 September
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
This tour has been postponed until Sunday 26 November at 10.30am.
A special building, a great history and a totally remarkable story of reinvention. Get the lowdown on a beautiful structure in east Manchester.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 1 October
1pm Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands, Sale
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 7 October
10.30am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 8 October
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 October
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 15 October
11am Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk Valley
(The Impossible Bridge and the Improbable Hill)
In the north of the city centre changes are afoot in one of the most historic areas of the city. This tour tells tales of bravery, misery, love and death plus fascinating architecture and landscapes. Oh and a story when a lot of naked people arrived in 2010.
Sunday 14 June
3pm 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.
Saturday 21 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.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 29 October
4pm 6.30pm 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.
Tuesday 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.
Sunday 12 November
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 November
10.30am Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in Manchester
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx were the fathers of communism. Engels lived, on and off, for 22 years in Manchester and during this time Marx would stay with Engels for long periods. The remarkable table of two men who changed the political world is told on the this tour, three days before Friedrich Engels birthday.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 26 November
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.
Sunday 10 December
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.
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REMEMBER THERE ARE VOUCHERS AND DEALS AVAILABLE HERE
2023
Sunday 1 January
Noon New Year's Day Tour
Start 2023 with a fresh, informative and amusing tour of the city.
Saturday 7 January
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 8 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.
Saturday 14 January
11am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 21 January
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 4 February
1030am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 11 February
10am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town. Fine buildings to see, music to listen to, tragedies to weep over and how to count your life by moons.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 12 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.
Saturday 18 February
10am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college.
1pm Manchester: The Necropolis
Rattle his bones over the stones; he’s only a pauper, whom nobody owns'. A tour around city centre’s secret and not so secret graveyards telling tales on the deceased.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 19 February
10.30am Mayfield Tour
A spectacular old rail depot now host to a multiplicity of events awaits on this tour. The stories are moving and often funny. We also visit the brand new and gorgeous park that opened in 2022.
Thursday 23 February
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 11 March
10am EXCLUSIVE TOURS: New Century, 1963 design perfection
Even though completed in 1963 this remains state-of the-art auditorium after a splendid restoration. It comes with the bonus of a fabulous new food hall and college. There are just five tours this autumn for guests to get the lowdown or relive memories of the great gigs and other events that have taken place here.
Sunday 12 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 18 March
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 19 March
11am 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.
Saturday 1 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 8 April
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.
1pm The Secrets of Chorlton: The Surprising Manchester Series
From a hamlet on a road to nowhere to desirable suburb the story of Chorlton-cum-Hardy is a fascinating tale of people, places and events. This tour will explore the characters that inhabited the suburb, the good, the bad and the ugly.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 15 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 19 April
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: John Rylands Library and the People's History Museum
Saturday 22 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 29 April
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 6 May
10.30am 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.
5pm Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in Manchester
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx were the fathers of communism. Engels lived, on and off, for 22 years in Manchester and during this time Marx would stay with Engels for long periods. The remarkable table of two men who changed the political world is told on the this tour, the day after Karl Marx's birthday.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
THESE ARE SOME GUEST COMMENTS
Saturday 13 May
10am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 14 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 20 May
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 24 May
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: dark deeds and world changing events
Thursday 25 May
POSTPONED UNTIL 14 SEPTEMBER. SEPTEMBER. ALL GUESTS SHOULD HAVE BEEN EMAILED AND REFUNDED
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 27 May
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Monday 29 May
Noon The First Street tour – People, Music, Arts, Mills
Manchester Flower Festival
Famous names are commemorated in First Street. We ask why. There are also tales of cotton mills, music and much more.
Saturday 3 June
10am Secrets of Stockport
We go up and down and all around exploring the great stories of this sandstone town. Fine buildings to see, music to listen to, tragedies to weep over and how to count your life by moons.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 4 June
11am 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.
Saturday 10 June
10.30am: Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
A story of how the city was formed and the forces that shaped it.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 17 June
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 Manchester: The Necropolis
'Rattle his bones over the stones; he’s only a pauper, whom nobody owns'. A tour around city centre’s secret and not so secret graveyards telling tales on the deceased.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Wednesday 21 June
Free
12.30pm Spinningfields tour: Bright lights, big plans, and a world-famous University is born
Saturday 24 June
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 25 June
THIS IS POSTPONED FOR A WEEK DURING TO EXCESS WATER
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 experience.
3pm Friday 30 June
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
3pm Saturday 1 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 2 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Tuesday 4 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Thursday 6 July
Manchester: the pioneering city – An official Manchester International Festival Tour
Fusing the past, present and future, this tour covers Manchester’s iconic architecture, from civil engineering and skyscrapers to pioneering railways and canals, all rich with history.
Saturday 8 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Sunday 9 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Tuesday 11 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Wednesday 12 July
1-2pm Lost & Imagined Manchester: A talk with incredible images on the National Trust Viaduct
This special occasion will take the right line about life on the high line with a talk about some of the amazing buildings we have lost and some of the outrageous schemes that were never completed.
Thursday 13 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Tues 15 July
3pm Two cities, huge stories, big revelations: An official Manchester International Festival Tour
A tour that takes in two cities – looking at the centre of old Salford and returning via Manchester.
Saturday 22 July
10.30am Alexandra Park and Whalley Range
A fine park and a fascinating suburb with loads of stories to tell, there'll be music too.
Saturday 5 August
10.30am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 6 August
11am The Secrets of Littleborough
A walking tour of a remarkable little town exploring old halls, charming streets, canals and railways.
Saturday 12 August
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 13 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.
Saturday 19 August
10.30am The Peterloo Massacre Tour
The definitive tour about a moment that helped shape the future of the nature.
Saturday 26 August
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 2 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.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 9 September
10am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Thursday 14 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 16 September
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.
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 23 September
10.30am EXCLUSIVE: The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
This tour has been postponed until Sunday 26 November at 10.30am.
A special building, a great history and a totally remarkable story of reinvention. Get the lowdown on a beautiful structure in east Manchester.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 1 October
1pm Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands, Sale
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 7 October
10.30am 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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 8 October
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 October
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.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 15 October
11am Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk Valley
(The Impossible Bridge and the Improbable Hill)
In the north of the city centre changes are afoot in one of the most historic areas of the city. This tour tells tales of bravery, misery, love and death plus fascinating architecture and landscapes. Oh and a story when a lot of naked people arrived in 2010.
Sunday 14 June
3pm 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.
Saturday 21 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.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Sunday 29 October
4pm 6.30pm 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.
Tuesday 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.
Sunday 12 November
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 November
10.30am Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx in Manchester
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx were the fathers of communism. Engels lived, on and off, for 22 years in Manchester and during this time Marx would stay with Engels for long periods. The remarkable table of two men who changed the political world is told on the this tour, three days before Friedrich Engels birthday.
The Saturday Walkabout Series
The Manchester Music Walkabout 1pm every Saturday; The Manchester Pub Walkabout 3pm every Saturday.
Total entertainment, brilliant stories, great fun.
Saturday 26 November
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.
Sunday 10 December
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.
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