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  • EXCLUSIVE TOUR: New Century Tour, perfection in design from 1963
  • FREE Castlefield - the 2,000 year guestlist
  • Manchester Necropolis: rattle my bones
  • FREE Scientists, sinners and graveyards: A Tale of Two Citie
  • Literary Manchester: A city in words
  • Heaton Hall and Park Tour
  • Halloween tours
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Boldest Building' Tour, Edgar Wood Centre
  • EXCLUSIVE: Refuge/ Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel
  • EXCLUSIVE Hallé St Peter’s & Ancoats Tour NEW
  • Saturday Walkabout Series: Music, Pubs, Ghosts
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station tours
  • The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
  • Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk ValleyAir, Scuttlers, Lost Churches and Hidden Stories
  • EXCLUSIVE Salford Lads Club and Middlewood Locks
  • Secrets of Chapel Street & Greengatel Park
  • EXCLUSIVE: Ordsall Hall and Manchester Ship Canal tour
  • Sleazy & Sinister Mcr
  • Secrets of Ancoats & New Islington
  • Stockport Secrets
  • Secrets of Littleborough
  • The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
  • April Fool's Day Tour - The Incredibly Serious Tour
  • Knutsford Secrets
  • Friedrich Engels And Karl Marx Tours
  • Secrets of Fairfield Moravian Settlement
  • The Death & Beer Tour 2022
  • Secrets of Rochdale town centre
  • Secret Tunnels Tour
  • Didsbury, Kersal, Quays tours
  • Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands and Sale
  • Magical Manchester Mystery Tour - by bike
  • Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
  • Peterloo Massacre: The Reality & The Drama
  • Castlefield, St Johns, First Street
  • ​Chorlton tour
  • The Secrets of Middleton
  • The Day The World Got Smaller Tour
  • Truly Madly Brutal
  • The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
  • Suffragettes, Women & Manchester
  • Talk: Lost Buildings of Manchester & Salford
  • Platt Fields, Birch Fields and Rusholme Tour
  • The Prestwich Tour: The surprising Manchester series
  • Tour Diary: Confessions of a guide
  • Some tours
  • The Zoom Tours series
  • Loyalty card/scheme
  • EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and College House
  • First Wednesday Spinningfields Series 2020
  • Exclusive: 35 King St & Georgian Manchester
  • Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
  • Totally Manchester - a general tour of the city
  • Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
  • Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
  • Some Published Articles On Manchester's Present, its Heritage and Tourism
  • Secrets of the Northern Quarter
  • The Rollicking Pub Tour
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Old Trafford
  • The Surprising Manchester Series: Bradford & Clayton
  • EXCLUSIVE: Kampus tours, the abandoned warehouses
  • Incredible Interiors
  • Shock, Surprise, Prose & Verse: Manchester and Literature
  • Ford Madox Brown and Pre-Raphaelite Manchester
  • Podcasts
  • Lost Graveyards and the Dead
  • Return to 1421: The Old Towne and Medieval Manchester
  • Suggested Private Tours
  • Anthony Burgess and Literary Manchester Tour
  • Great Northern Tunnel Tour
  • 1840s Manchester: The Key Decade, talk and tour
  • Burns Night Tour Monday 25 January
  • Fire Station Tours: Calling Photographers & Sketchers
  • Manchester City of Art Tour
  • Valentine's Day tour 14 February
  • The Gallery
  • The Ghosts of Afflecks & the Northern Quarter
  • New Manchester Squares Tour
  • The Manchester Guardian is 200 tour
  • The Understanding Architecture Series
  • FREE The Hidden Rivers Tour

My contact details and a brief biography

07876235638   event@jonathanschofieldtours.com   @JonathSchofield 

Testimonials and guest comments
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Breaking news: I was overwhelmed to be awarded the University of Manchester Medal of Honour in November 2021 for 'an exceptional contribution to the city, the region and the work of the University'. 

Jonathan Schofield has been a registered Blue Badge Guide since 1996 and is the Editor-at-Large of Manchester Confidential (www.manchesterconfidential.com) the city’s largest independent magazine. He is also the Editor of Manchester Books Limited (www.mcrbooks.co.uk) and has written several books on the North West. He is a regular broadcaster on local and national radio.
 
He is also a public speaker, a town and city identity consultant and a freelance writer on tourism, architecture, public art, history and food and drink. He was Highly Commended at the Manchester Tourism Awards 2005 for the Best Tourism Experience of the Year (awarded for guiding services). His award-winning tours have included Radical Manchester, the Incredible Interiors, Chetham’s Library and Medieval Buildings, Engels in Manchester, London Road Fire Station tours and many others.

In 2008 he was appointed the director of a training course for new Manchester guides on the strength of his guiding skills. All 24 people who took the final exams passed the course. A first.

He has been the official tour guide for the world-famous Manchester International Festival since 2015 conducting heaps of sold-out tours. He is the exclusive tour-guide partner for Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings and was the only guide asked to lead London Road Fire Station tours. He currently has exclusive access to Mayfield abandoned station and the Edgar Wood Centre. 
 
He has guided around, interviewed or been interviewed by Dr Alice Roberts, Michael Portillo, Katharine Viner, Michael Wood, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Ed Byrne, John Prescott, Sir Alex Ferguson, Annie Lennox, Alistair Campbell, Melvyn Bragg, Victoria Wood, Michael Ball, Ed Byrne, James Naughtie, Sir Terence Conran, Anish Kapoor, The Hairy Bikers, Michel Roux, Anthony Gormley, Maxine Peake and many other people.

​In September 2021 he took around Simon Stone (Director of 2021's The Dig with Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes) and interviewed Dan Jones, broadcaster and historian.  

He has appeared in Tristram Hunt's biography of Friedrich Engels, The Frock-Coated Communist, Stuart Maconie's, affectionate look at the North of England in Pies and Prejudice and Manchester Unspun, Andy Spinoza's fine biography of 35 years of Manchester's recent history.

His current publications, available through Manchester Books Limited, are:
Manchester, the Complete Guide
Lost & Imagined Manchester
Illusion & Change Manchester
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Jonathan Schofield says, "Ha, all that description above might seem a little immodest, but I believe it's called marketing. As far as my guiding technique is concerned I quickly learnt that it's never about hectoring, lecturing or talking down to people. Instead guiding is a rare mix of authority, presentation, information and entertainment. I want my guests to leave feeling excited about the topic we’ve covered. I also want them to have a good time and have a bit of a laugh when occasion calls. I want the tour to be memorable and the complete opposite of a bore."

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