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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
EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and Medieval Buildings 
The finest examples of their date and type in the country. These buildings from 1421 are utterly enchanting, the book collection in the library is stunning, and the associations with the great and the good very deep.
Every Saturday 10.30am and 12.30pm subject to availability of the space. 
A quarter of all fees goes to Chetham's. 
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​EXTRA DATES ADDED
EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station Tours: Including Manchester’s Most Spectacular Abandoned Building
New dates announced
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EXCLUSIVE: Principal Hotel Tours (formerly The Refuge Assurance Company)
Tour Dates:  Saturday 9 February 9am; Sunday 28 April 10.30am; Saturday 25 May 3pm; Sunday 23 June 10.30am; Saturday 7 September 3pm.
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EXCLUSIVE: The Ghosts of Afflecks & a Northern Quarter Tour
New dates announced
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Discover Manchester Tour
29 June, 21 July, 19 August, 27 August,13 September, 22 September. 

Incredible Interiors Tours 
Saturday 5 October
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The Secret Tunnel Tour 
Saturday 23 June, Saturday 21 July, Sunday 28 July, Sunday 11 August
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Ford Madox Brown & Pre-Raphaelite Manchester 
Saturday 15 June - postponed until Saturday 17 August
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The Surprising Manchester Series: Chorlton
​Intrigue, song, big plans and politics 
Sunday 16 June, 3pm
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The Didsbury Tour: The Surprising Manchester Series
Sunday 30 June 3pm
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Britain's Only Tour of Uninteresting Objects
Saturday 9 February 3pm, Saturday 6 July 5pm
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The Universities & the beautiful garden squares
Sunday 21 July 3pm
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The Engels and Marx Tours 2019
3pm Saturday 23 February, 3pm Saturday 4 May, 3pm Sunday 5 May, 6pm Thursday 28 November, 6pm Wednesday 28 August, 3pm Saturday 30 November
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April Fool's Day Tour, (and another Daft Tour)
Monday 1 April 6pm, Saturday 27 July 3pm 
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 Truly, Madly, Brutal Tour - concrete dreams
Remarkable people, buildings and places
Saturday 3 August 3pm
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The Peterloo Massacre at 200 years and how it changed British history 
Friday 16 August, 6pm
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Kersal Moor & the River Woods: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford) Series 
Sunday 1 September 2pm
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The Quays, MediaCity & Trafford Wharf: The Surprising Manchester (and Salford & Trafford) Series
Sunday 22 September 2pm
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Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
Saturday 28 September 3pm
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The Surprising Manchester Series: Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
Crazy suburban tales
Saturday 13 October
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Suffragettes, Women and Manchester
​Sunday 13 October 3pm
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The Pub Tour 
Thurs 14 March, Thursday 6 June 6pm
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The Surprising Manchester Series: Old Trafford

The Greatest Art Exhibition ever, Botanical Gardens and Mighty Sport 
Saturday 10 November 3pm
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