Trees, flowers and Manchester city centre green spaces tour
11am Saturday 25 May, 11am Sunday 26 May
£15 (children under 12 free
This is collaboration tour with Manchester Accommodation BID taking place during the Manchester Flower Festival. Some of the gardens we visit feature on this map, the script of which I wrote for CityCo.
Parks, pocket parks, old parks, new parks and gardens that were graveyards. Canals, wharfsides, rivers and rivers that become canals. There’s a lot to enjoy with the ‘green’ and ‘blue’ assets (to use the jargon) of central Manchester and Salford.
Variety is the spice of life dictated by the way the city grew and the need of its infrastructure. For a city 35 miles from the sea there is a lot of water. Rivers you’d expect, but miles and miles of canal add a distinctive element to the urban scene. Rivers and canals feature in many of our chosen areas.
What must be remembered about the city is the distinctive way it grew; first and foremost as an industrial city with commerce chivvying things along. The development speed astonished all commentators, nationally and internationally, as acre after acre of land filled with factories, warehouses and mainly working-class housing. So, it’s a curious thing that none of the spaces we visit were planned nineteenth century parks. They are either adaptations from redundant graveyards or date from the last 25 years or so.
What just about all of them share is a backstory with great significance. It makes them all the more enjoyable.
Meet and finish: St Ann’s Square Flower Festival stand.
Tickets
£15
Under 12s free.
Please pay on Paypal below. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
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.
Parks, pocket parks, old parks, new parks and gardens that were graveyards. Canals, wharfsides, rivers and rivers that become canals. There’s a lot to enjoy with the ‘green’ and ‘blue’ assets (to use the jargon) of central Manchester and Salford.
Variety is the spice of life dictated by the way the city grew and the need of its infrastructure. For a city 35 miles from the sea there is a lot of water. Rivers you’d expect, but miles and miles of canal add a distinctive element to the urban scene. Rivers and canals feature in many of our chosen areas.
What must be remembered about the city is the distinctive way it grew; first and foremost as an industrial city with commerce chivvying things along. The development speed astonished all commentators, nationally and internationally, as acre after acre of land filled with factories, warehouses and mainly working-class housing. So, it’s a curious thing that none of the spaces we visit were planned nineteenth century parks. They are either adaptations from redundant graveyards or date from the last 25 years or so.
What just about all of them share is a backstory with great significance. It makes them all the more enjoyable.
Meet and finish: St Ann’s Square Flower Festival stand.
Tickets
£15
Under 12s free.
Please pay on Paypal below. If you wish to pay by bank transfer please contact me on [email protected]
Duration: most tours last between ninety minutes and two hours
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.