The Death & Beer Tour
5pm Saturday 28 March & 3pm Saturday 7 November
A tour around Weaste cemetery with Salford’s noble dead, finishing off in a beer tap with Marble’s noble beers.
£12
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.
Duration: 1.5/2 hours
Meet: Langworthy Metrolink Stop 5pm
Finish: Broadway Metrolink Stop 7pm
The travel and booze expenses are not included in the £12 but the great stories and evocative locations come as standard.
£12
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.
Duration: 1.5/2 hours
Meet: Langworthy Metrolink Stop 5pm
Finish: Broadway Metrolink Stop 7pm
The travel and booze expenses are not included in the £12 but the great stories and evocative locations come as standard.