The Death & Beer Tour - unusually, morbidly, thirstily entertaining
2pm Saturday 28 May
Postponed - all ticketed guests should have been informed and offered a substitute tour
A tour around Weaste cemetery with Salford’s noble dead, finishing off in a beer tap with Marble’s noble beers.
There’s a curious romance to old cemeteries. With the gravestones gathered about you they create a singular mental impression, one familiar, but also thrilling, perhaps uncomfortable too. This is the inevitability of the human condition.
Weaste Cemetery, from 1857, is just such a place, filled with grand monuments and modest memorials, angels silhouetted against skies, broken columns, obelisks, all the hundreds of ways our forbears thought it necessary to mark the serious business of death.
Yet, Weaste, Salford’s first public cemetery, is about life as well. It's about the stories of the individuals some famous, some less so, who share soil here. Amongst the 300,000 interments there's Salford’s first MP and great man all round, Joseph Brotherton, the father of Manchester’s Classical music, Sir Charles Halle who gave his name to an orchestra and Mark Addy who rescued more than 50 people from drowning in the River Irwell.
We finish the tour with a short walk to the Marble Brewery Beer Tap, where refreshment can be taken, more stories told and a glass raised to the dear departed.
Meet: Langworthy Metrolink Stop 1pm
Finish: Broadway Metrolink Stop 3pm
The travel and booze expenses are not included in the £15 but the great stories and evocative locations come as standard.
Tickets £15. Please pay on Paypal below or Eventbrite. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
Fully accessible
Totally fascinating
The Paypal receipt is your ticket. If you ordered from Eventbrite you will be sent an electronic ticket. Please check the email, from which you ordered your tickets, 24 hours before each tour, in case circumstances have arisen which affect the tour, especially if the tour includes access to a space not owned by Jonathan Schofield Tours. If there is no change to the plans, you will not be sent an email. And as usual, if you don't have an informative and entertaining tour please ask for a refund.
There’s a curious romance to old cemeteries. With the gravestones gathered about you they create a singular mental impression, one familiar, but also thrilling, perhaps uncomfortable too. This is the inevitability of the human condition.
Weaste Cemetery, from 1857, is just such a place, filled with grand monuments and modest memorials, angels silhouetted against skies, broken columns, obelisks, all the hundreds of ways our forbears thought it necessary to mark the serious business of death.
Yet, Weaste, Salford’s first public cemetery, is about life as well. It's about the stories of the individuals some famous, some less so, who share soil here. Amongst the 300,000 interments there's Salford’s first MP and great man all round, Joseph Brotherton, the father of Manchester’s Classical music, Sir Charles Halle who gave his name to an orchestra and Mark Addy who rescued more than 50 people from drowning in the River Irwell.
We finish the tour with a short walk to the Marble Brewery Beer Tap, where refreshment can be taken, more stories told and a glass raised to the dear departed.
Meet: Langworthy Metrolink Stop 1pm
Finish: Broadway Metrolink Stop 3pm
The travel and booze expenses are not included in the £15 but the great stories and evocative locations come as standard.
Tickets £15. Please pay on Paypal below or Eventbrite. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
Fully accessible
Totally fascinating
The Paypal receipt is your ticket. If you ordered from Eventbrite you will be sent an electronic ticket. Please check the email, from which you ordered your tickets, 24 hours before each tour, in case circumstances have arisen which affect the tour, especially if the tour includes access to a space not owned by Jonathan Schofield Tours. If there is no change to the plans, you will not be sent an email. And as usual, if you don't have an informative and entertaining tour please ask for a refund.