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  • Tour Diary: Confessions of a guide
  • Saturday Walkabout Series: Music, Pubs, Ghosts
  • Valentine's Day tour 14 February
  • Sleazy & Sinister Mcr
  • Heaton Hall and Park Tour
  • EXCLUSIVE: Refuge/ Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel
  • ​Chorlton tour
  • The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
  • Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
  • This Mighty Manchester
  • New Year's Day tour 2025
  • Secrets of Ancoats & New Islington
  • Lost and Imagined talk
  • EXCLUSIVE Salford Lads Club and Middlewood Locks
  • EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and College House
  • Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
  • Knutsford Secrets
  • Secrets of Didsbury
  • Suffragettes, Women & Manchester
  • Secrets of Strangeways & Cheetham Hill
  • Trees, flowers and Mcr's Green Spaces Tour
  • Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands and Sale
  • Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk ValleyAir, Scuttlers, Lost Churches and Hidden Stories
  • Liverpool - in two parts
  • Southern Cemetery Tour
  • Truly Madly Brutal
  • EXCLUSIVE TOUR: New Century Tour, perfection in design from 1963
  • Halloween tours
  • FREE - ​Ballads, battles and big ideas: Embankment, Salford
  • The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
  • Friedrich Engels And Karl Marx Tours
  • The Secrets of Altrincham
  • Manchester Cathedral tour
  • Literary Manchester: A city in words
  • The First Street tour – People, Music, Arts, Mills
  • Stones of Manchester
  • Manchester Necropolis: rattle my bones
  • Secrets of Wilmslow 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Boldest Building' Tour, Edgar Wood Centre
  • Spinningfields Tours - Free
  • FREE Scientists, sinners and graveyards: A Tale of Two Citie
  • Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
  • EXCLUSIVE Hallé St Peter’s & Ancoats Tour NEW
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station tours
  • Secrets of Chapel Street & Greengate Park
  • EXCLUSIVE: Ordsall Hall and Manchester Ship Canal tour
  • Secrets of Worsley
  • Stockport Secrets
  • Secrets of Littleborough
  • April Fool's Day Tour - The Incredibly Serious Tour
  • Secrets of Cheadle
  • Secrets of Fairfield Moravian Settlement
  • The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
  • The Death & Beer Tour 2022
  • Secrets of Rochdale town centre
  • Secret Tunnels Tour
  • Magical Manchester Mystery Tour - by bike
  • Peterloo Massacre: The Reality & The Drama
  • Castlefield, St Johns, First Street
  • The Secrets of Middleton
  • The Day The World Got Smaller Tour
  • Talk: Lost Buildings of Manchester & Salford
  • Platt Fields, Birch Fields and Rusholme Tour
  • The Prestwich Tour: The surprising Manchester series
  • Some tours
  • The Zoom Tours series
  • Loyalty card/scheme
  • First Wednesday Spinningfields Series 2020
  • Exclusive: 35 King St & Georgian Manchester
  • Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
  • 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
  • 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

Some Published Articles About Manchester 


A short history of Manchester: the rise and fall of Cottonopolis
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A short history of Manchester: charters, American states and drinking rules

A short history of Manchester: the wizard, the cavalier, the mercenary

A short history of Manchester: the Romans cometh and goeth

The BBC's Manctopia reviewed

2030 Manchester - more than fifty 20-storey or more towers in the city centre

Mayfield and its park: how to approach new developments

Star & Garter saved: the incubator of rock rescued

Halle St Peters: a masterpiece in Ancoats

The Albert Square plans considered

Daily Express building: as modern as it gets even though it was built in 1939
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Curiosities In The City: An Alternative Tour Of Manchester (part three)
Fine, new, operator: Three Little Words Reviewed
Uneven but with moments of brilliance: Wah Ji Wah Reviewed
Blooming Universities: gorgeous landscaping amidst the ivory towers
Ghost Photographed In Mayfield Station
In Search Of The Man Who Changed The World
This is Manchester In Pictures In The 1990s
This Is Manchester In Pictures In The 1980s
This Is Manchester In Pictures In The 1970s
This Is Manchester In Pictures In The 1960s
Curiosities In The City: An Alternative Tour Of Manchester (part one)
Curiosities In The City: An Alternative Tour Of Manchester (part two)
Commerce, Crime, Wealth & Poverty: Strolling Strangeways
Material World: Are Too Many Of Manchester's Buildings Drab?
Some Unusual Structures Around Manchester
The Policing Problem: How Did It Come To This?
The Myth Of The 1996 Manchester Bomb
Highline For Manchester In Northern Gateway Proposals
Public Realm As It Should Be: Ordsall Chord
Bad Day For UK Museums: National Football Museum To Charge Entry
The View From Manchester's Newest Tallest Building & The UK's Fifth Tallest
Piccadilly Gardens Must Be Paved
America, Slavery & Fellowship: Manchester History
The Ultimate City Centre Pub Crawl
One Two Five Deansgate: An Architectural Disaster
Streets on Fire: Will There Be Civil Unrest If There Is A Second Referendum
City Centre Curiosities Part Three

Draft Bovril, Topless Barmaids & Berni Inns: Welcome to Manchester 1975
Jonathan Schofield is given a pub and bar guide from the past and doesn't want to go back

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The State Of The City - Manchester In 2017​
Jonathan Schofield asks what might happen with an Elected Mayor and a departed Bernste
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Views from Manchester Cathedral tower
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White Elephant. How Manchester avoided a London mistake
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Manchester Town Hall, Old Plans, New Hotel
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Brexit, Trump and Parallels from Manchester's Past
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Reinventing Irlam: Neil McArthur's Dream
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Sir Howard Bernstein: The Legacy
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The Big Interview: Gary Neville and St Michael's
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Green by the Irwell
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Are Manchester's Tall Buildings Good Enough
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The Impossible Bridge and the Improbable Hill: The Irk Valley

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Beautiful Room Rediscovered

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The River Irwell: Brown Trout and Weir Tales

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Manchester's Architectural story part three

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The Good, the Standard, the Ugly: City Tower

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The Big Interview: Alex Poots, MCR International Festival Director

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The Good, the Standard, the Ugly: MCR’s Arts & Craft Typeface

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Up in Arms: Manchester's badge on buildings

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1 Angel Square, Pictures, Facts, Video

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The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: The Royal Exchange 

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The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: The Britannia Hotel

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Manchester Imagined: the city centre blossoms

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The Good, The Standard, The Ugly: Brotherton Statue

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Fortune Left Behind In Jamie Oliver's Bank Conversion Restaurant 

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Cracking Video Of Manchester City Centre Metrolink Growth

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Walled in, fenced off, covered in filth. Manc's oldest scheduled ancient monument is a mess

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The City Centre Coronation Street Set Under Threat

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Classic Manchester Building To Host Classic French Restaurant

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For a daily picture and building fact follow @JonathSchofield 
This was us: 1750 Map And Picture Of The City

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Manchester: Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder

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Ford Madox Brown: The Manchester Art Gallery Blockbuster

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The Last of England by Ford Madox Brown painted from 1852-55

The Good, The Standard and The Ugly: Ordsall Hall

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Beautiful Ordsall Hall, a couple of miles from the city centre

The Good, The Standard And The Ugly: Arkwright House

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The architecture of bombast during the last shout-out of the British Empire
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