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Shortlisted for the Manchester Tourism Coach Tours & Cruises Awards October 2014–March 2015 Autumn • Winter • Spring CANAL RUTHERFORD COTTON SALFORD DALTON PETERLOO COMPUTER MILLS GOTHIC CANAL STREET RADICAL UNDERGROUND MODERN NORTHERN CASTLEFIELD CORONATION STREET COBDEN WHITWORTH INDUSTRIAL PALAZZO TURING RAILWAY HALLÉ DOCKS UNIVERSITY BRIDGEWATER GASKELL QUAYS BUSBY ANCOATS LOWRY BAROQUE HAÇIENDA BLITZ ENGELS RYLANDS www.newmanchesterwalks.com UNITED [email protected] IRWELL 07769 298068 / 07884 001315 Most walks, £7 (£6 concessions). New Manchester Walks SATURDAY is an independent walks, talks and tours outfit of professionally-trained SEPTEMBER and qualified Blue and Sep 27 ENGELS & MARX IN Green Badge guides, plus MANCHESTER celebrity guests, with Walkers of the World Unite! decades of experience in By day they were Victorian gentlemen with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By the tourism business in night they were rabid radicals, roaming the Manchester, London and streets with revolutionary fervour. around the world. Part 1: The Frock-Coated Communists. Meet Oxford Road station, 11am. Part 2: The Condition of the Working Class in Manchester. Meet St Ann’s Church, 2pm. OCTOBER Planning to go on a walk? Oct 4 Please check our website MANCHESTER IN before setting off in case 12 SONGS of changes, last-minute The sound of the city, courtesy of the problems or adverse weather. Smiths, John Cooper Clarke, the Hollies, Oasis, Happy Mondays, the Jam... Just turn up for all walks except Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. where stated. The Canal Cruise must be booked through Quay Oct 4 Tickets at www.quaytickets.com, THE WONDERS OF 0843 208 0500. WITHINGTON From Old Moat to Old Broadway Places on the Gorton Meet Withington Metrolink stop, 2.30pm. Monastery tour and talks should be booked with the Oct 11 THOMAS DE QUINCEY’S Monastery by e-mailing MANCHESTER [email protected] or phoning 0161 223 3211. Literature Month special. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 12 noon. Please let us know if you’re Oct 11 bringing a group. ANGEL MEADOW Victorian Hell-Hole Prices: Most walks cost £7 (£6). Gorton Monastery: £7.50 Meet Victoria station wallmap, 2.30pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub. (money goes mostly to the Monastery). Oct 18 Cathedral Tours: MANCHESTER TOWN HALL £8 (includes donation). CLOCK TOWER TOUR Canal Cruise: £18. Meet Lloyd Street entrance reception Festive Cruises: £23 (includes desk at the Town Hall, 10.45am, 12.45pm, mulled wine and mince pies). 2.45pm. Please book with Quaytickets. Most walks last about 2 hours. SATURDAY Oct 18 Nov 15 THE SLAVE TRADERS ENGELS & MARX DAY OF MANCHESTER Walkers of the World Unite! Going Back to the Roots By day they were Victorian gentlemen In association with International with sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. Anti-Slavery Day. Meet Victoria Station By night they were rabid radicals, roaming wallmap, 11am. the streets with revolutionary fervour. A Parliament Week event in honour of Oct 18 Engels’s 194th birthday. BOHO LITERARY PUB WALK Part 1: The Frock-Coated Communists. “It was the best of pints; it was the worst Meet Oxford Road station, 11am. of pints.” So begins Charles Dickens’s Part 2: The Condition of the Working classic drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities. Class in Manchester. Meet St Ann’s A Manchester Literature Festival event. Church, 2pm. Please book with Quaytickets. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 5pm. Nov 15 CANAL CRUISE WITH Oct 25 ALAN TURING HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Tortured Genius of the Meet by the water’s edge outside the Computer Age Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, £18. Please book with Quaytickets. He broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost invented the computer, and was persecuted Nov 22 to a painful suicide by the ungrateful AIRPORT authorities. Meet Manchester Museum 100 Years of Flight in Manchester Reception, Oxford Road, 11am. A Manchester Science Festival event. Meet Airport Railway Station barrier, 10am. Oct 25 Nov 22 JOHN DALTON THE SMITHS’ MANCHESTER Father of Science Meet Oxford Road Station, 11am. In honour He devised atomic theory, discovered colour of Shelagh Delaney Day. blindness and invented the weather. No wonder Manchester honours John Dalton Nov 22 so. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, OLD DOCKS – NEW CITY 2pm. A Manchester Science Festival event. Salford Quays once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners but now a new city – NOVEMBER Media City, a millennial metropolis – has risen, a city of glass, steel and burnished Nov 1 metal, bold and brilliant. Meet Media City THE MAD INVENTORS OF Metrolink, 12 noon. MANCHESTER Nov 22 Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. THE FENIAN HANGINGS A Manchester Science Festival event. OF NOVEMBER 1867 Nov 1 A detailed investigation into the THE WORLD’S 1ST RAILWAY atrocities. Meet outside the Craft Centre, Oak Street, 2pm. Manchester invented the railways – and was amazed to find the rest of the world Nov 29 also wanted to build lines. Meet Midland MANCHESTER TOWN HALL Hotel, Peter Street, 2pm. A Manchester CLOCK TOWER TOUR Science Festival event. Meet Lloyd Street entrance reception desk at the Town Hall, 10.45am, 12.45pm, 2.45pm. Please book with Quaytickets. SATURDAY Nov 29 Jan 17 SOUTHERN CEMETERY THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN TOUR The story of what became the world’s Tour in honour of Lowry, Busby, Rylands, greatest newspaper, but now is simply Wilson... and the forgotten victim of the the sorry Guardian. Meet Visitor Centre, Munich Air Disaster. Tour led by Ed Glinert, Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm. author of HarperCollins’s “London’s Dead”. Meet by the Cemetery Gates, Barlow Moor Jan 24 Road, opposite James Hilton Memorials WINSTON CHURCHILL’S (No. 245), 11am. MANCHESTER Marking 50 years since the great man’s death. DECEMBER Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Dec 6 Jan 24 THE STORY OF THE DARK SIDE OF MANCHESTER CORONATION STREET Murderers, bombers, necromancers, Tour led by Ed Glinert, the only Manchester fascists and assorted psychopaths. guide who has recently taken groups Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 3pm. around both the old and new Corrie set. Meet St Ann’s Church, 11am. Jan 31 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! Dec 6 MASTERPIECES OF THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER ARCHITECTURE, MANCHESTER IN 20 OBJECTS ART & DESIGN From the “Berlin Wall” to the IRA Pillar Box. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm. Jan 31 Dec 13 THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER TOWN HALL MANCHESTER IN 20 OBJECTS CLOCK TOWER TOUR From the “Berlin Wall” to the IRA Pillar Box. Meet Lloyd Street entrance reception Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2.30pm. desk at the Town Hall, 10.45am, 12.45pm, 2.45pm. Please book with Quaytickets. FEBRUARY Dec 27 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL Feb 7 CLOCK TOWER TOUR OLD DOCKS – NEW CITY Salford Quays once harboured the world’s Meet Lloyd Street entrance reception ocean-going liners but now a new city – desk at the Town Hall, 10.45am, 12.45pm, Media City, a millennial metropolis – has 2.45pm. Please book with Quaytickets. risen, a city of glass, steel and burnished metal, bold and brilliant. Meet Media City JANUARY 2015 Metrolink, 12 noon. Jan 3 Feb 7 MANCHESTER TOWN HALL MANCHESTER MUSIC CLOCK TOWER TOURS Sex & Drugs & Rock ‘n’ Roll Meet Lloyd Street entrance reception Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 3pm. desk at the Town Hall, 10.45am, 12.45pm, 2.45pm. Please book with Quaytickets. Feb 14 THE UNKNOWN ANCOATS Jan 17 Industry, Italians, Ice-Cream BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! & Internment HITLER’S PLANS FOR MANCHESTER Meet Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 11am. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 11am. SATURDAY Feb 14 Mar 28 ANGEL MEADOW TALES OF THE Victorian Hell-Hole MANCHESTER DEAD It’s A Grave Afternoon Out Meet Victoria station wallmap, 2.30pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm. Feb 21 CANAL CRUISE WITH APRIL HISTORICAL COMMENTARY Easter Saturday Apr 4 Meet by the water’s edge outside the THE SECRET HISTORY Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, OF MANCHESTER £18. Please book with Quaytickets. Glinert’s “Believe it or Not!” Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. MARCH Easter Saturday Apr 4 Mar 7 MANCHESTER’S SACRED THE PANKHURSTS/ SITES SUFFRAGETTE CITY Churches, Shrines & Temples Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 12 noon. Victoria Station wallmap, 2pm. An International Women’s Day event. Apr 11 Mar 7 RED MANCHESTER THE WOMEN Manchester is a Labour city. So why are OF PETERLOO there more statues of Tories than socialists Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2.30pm. on the city streets? Meet Visitor Centre, An International Women’s Day event. Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. A non-partisan, pre-General Election special. Mar 14 AIRPORT Apr 11 100 Years of Flight in Manchester BLUE MANCHESTER Meet Airport Railway Station barrier, 10am. Barely a Tory has been elected in Manchester since Dave and George were in short Mar 14 trousers. Find out why. Meet Visitor Centre, THE IRISH IN MANCHESTER Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm. A non-partisan, pre-General Election special. Best, Behan, Mick Collins, Eamon de Valera, Home Rule, the Manchester Martyrs and a Apr 18 whiff of the Waxie’s Dargle. (In association THE SEARCH FOR THE with the Manchester Irish Festival). PETERLOO MEMORIAL Meet Oxford Road station 2.30pm. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. Mar 28 Ends at the site of the long-vanished ALDERLEY EDGE Peterloo Memorial. Wizards, Wells & Wondrous Stories Apr 18 CANAL CRUISE WITH Put on your walking shoes for a meander HISTORICAL COMMENTARY by mansions, mines and magic stones... Meet Alderley Edge station, 11.30am. Meet by the water’s edge outside the Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, 11am, Mar 28 £18. Please book with Quaytickets. MANCHESTER IN 12 SONGS The sound of the city, courtesy of the Smiths, John Cooper Clarke, the Hollies, Oasis, Happy Mondays, the Jam..