The Death & Beer Tour
1pm Saturday 17 April
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.
Duration: 1.5/2 hours
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.
Booking ahead is advisable
Please book on Paypal below. The receipt Paypal emails back to you operates as the ticket.
Full Covid-19 precautions will be taken. Sensible footwear is best and you will have to agree to the terms and conditions of visiting any site as stated by the guide when you turn up. On rare occasions some areas will not be available to visit.
PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE 24 HOURS BEFORE THE TOUR IN CASE A SITUATION ARISES WHICH MAY AFFECT THE TOUR.
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 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.
Booking ahead is advisable
Please book on Paypal below. The receipt Paypal emails back to you operates as the ticket.
Full Covid-19 precautions will be taken. Sensible footwear is best and you will have to agree to the terms and conditions of visiting any site as stated by the guide when you turn up. On rare occasions some areas will not be available to visit.
PLEASE CHECK THIS WEBSITE 24 HOURS BEFORE THE TOUR IN CASE A SITUATION ARISES WHICH MAY AFFECT THE TOUR.