Jonathan Schofield Manchester Tours
  • HOME
  • Calendar of tours
  • GUEST COMMENTS
  • Some tours in pictures
  • Manchester books by Jonathan Schofield
  • Terms & Conditions
  • CONTACT DETAILS AND BIOGRAPHY
  • VOUCHERS & DEALS
  • Tour Diary: Confessions of a guide
  • Saturday Walkabout Series: Music, Pubs, Ghosts
  • Valentine's Day tour 14 February
  • Sleazy & Sinister Mcr
  • Heaton Hall and Park Tour
  • EXCLUSIVE: Refuge/ Kimpton Clock Tower Hotel
  • ​Chorlton tour
  • The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
  • Bombed & Besieged: Manchester at War
  • This Mighty Manchester
  • New Year's Day tour 2025
  • Secrets of Ancoats & New Islington
  • Lost and Imagined talk
  • EXCLUSIVE Salford Lads Club and Middlewood Locks
  • EXCLUSIVE: Chetham's Library and College House
  • Whalley Range & Alexandra Park
  • Knutsford Secrets
  • Secrets of Didsbury
  • Suffragettes, Women & Manchester
  • Secrets of Strangeways & Cheetham Hill
  • Trees, flowers and Mcr's Green Spaces Tour
  • Death, Beauty & Beer Tour of Brooklands and Sale
  • Secrets of Angel Meadow and the Irk ValleyAir, Scuttlers, Lost Churches and Hidden Stories
  • Liverpool - in two parts
  • Southern Cemetery Tour
  • Truly Madly Brutal
  • EXCLUSIVE TOUR: New Century Tour, perfection in design from 1963
  • Halloween tours
  • FREE - ​Ballads, battles and big ideas: Embankment, Salford
  • The Secrets of Gorton Monastery
  • Friedrich Engels And Karl Marx Tours
  • The Secrets of Altrincham
  • Manchester Cathedral tour
  • Literary Manchester: A city in words
  • The First Street tour – People, Music, Arts, Mills
  • Stones of Manchester
  • Manchester Necropolis: rattle my bones
  • Secrets of Wilmslow 2025
  • EXCLUSIVE: 'Boldest Building' Tour, Edgar Wood Centre
  • Spinningfields Tours - Free
  • FREE Scientists, sinners and graveyards: A Tale of Two Citie
  • Architecture & Planning: why does Manchester look like it does?
  • EXCLUSIVE Hallé St Peter’s & Ancoats Tour NEW
  • EXCLUSIVE: Mayfield Station tours
  • Secrets of Chapel Street & Greengate Park
  • EXCLUSIVE: Ordsall Hall and Manchester Ship Canal tour
  • Secrets of Worsley
  • Stockport Secrets
  • Secrets of Littleborough
  • April Fool's Day Tour - The Incredibly Serious Tour
  • Secrets of Cheadle
  • Secrets of Fairfield Moravian Settlement
  • The Pan-African Congress, Slavery, and Thomas Clarkson Tour: A Manchester Anniversary Tour
  • The Death & Beer Tour 2022
  • Secrets of Rochdale town centre
  • Secret Tunnels Tour
  • Magical Manchester Mystery Tour - by bike
  • Peterloo Massacre: The Reality & The Drama
  • Castlefield, St Johns, First Street
  • The Secrets of Middleton
  • The Day The World Got Smaller Tour
  • Talk: Lost Buildings of Manchester & Salford
  • Platt Fields, Birch Fields and Rusholme Tour
  • The Prestwich Tour: The surprising Manchester series
  • Some tours
  • The Zoom Tours series
  • Loyalty card/scheme
  • First Wednesday Spinningfields Series 2020
  • Exclusive: 35 King St & Georgian Manchester
  • Secrets of the University of Manchester with interior visits
  • 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
  • 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

The Secrets of Whalley Range & Alexandra Park: crazy suburban tales

10.30am Saturday 8 March 2025​

This is part of the Surprising Manchester series.
​
The fascinating and stirring story of the creation of a planned posh suburb, the changes over time, its relationship with Alexandra Park, it mighty buildings, its churches and its people. 

There are tales of bravery and of farce, there are laughs and there is drama. There is music of course, and stories of lost aquariums, pleasure gardens and mighty mansions. 

If you live in the area or are looking for a tour that's a bit different and focuses on an area outside the city centre, then this tour will not disappoint
. 

Meet: the north-eastern gates of Alexandra Park at the junction of Claremont Road and Smalldale Avenue. 
Finish: close to the Hilary Step bar on Upper Chorlton Road.

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. A minimum of 6 people is required for the tours to go ahead

Alexandra Park/ Whalley Range 2025
Proudly powered by Weebly