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Most walks £5 WELCOME TO MANCHESTER Bienvenue, Willkommen, Bienvenidos New to the city? This is the ideal walk; a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s a best of everything, taking in the great sights and the key sites: from the Town Hall to the Royal Exchange; from the Art Gallery to the John Rylands Library.

Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. During the Manchester International Festival, July 4–21, meet outside the Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square.

SATURDAY

June 8 Underground Manchester Aug 3 Underground Manchester Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, various times. Book with Quaytickets various times. Book with Quaytickets June 15 IRA Bomb 1996 Outside Aug 10 Cruise the Waterways of Selfridge’s, Exchange Square, 11am Manchester Castlefield Hotel, June 15 Underground Manchester Liverpool Road, 11.30am Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Aug 17 Underground Manchester various times. Book with Quaytickets Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, June 22 Haworth Explorer Haworth various times. Book with Quaytickets steam railway station, 11am Aug 24 Lindow Moss June 29 Football Explorer Wilmslow station, 11am Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, Aug 24 The Beatles’ Liverpool Adelphi 11am. Ends at the National Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon Football Museum Aug 31 Underground Manchester June 29 Underground Manchester Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, various times. Book with Quaytickets various times. Book with Quaytickets Sep 7 Alderley Edge July 6 Airport 100 Years of Flight in Alderley Edge station, 11am Manchester. Airport Railway Sep 14 George Best’s Manchester Station barrier, 10.30am 50 years to the day since his July 6 The Pankhursts Albert Square debut , Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm , 11am July 13 Underground Manchester Sep 14 Underground Manchester Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, various times. Book with Quaytickets various times. Book with Quaytickets July 13 Architectural Glories of Sep 21 The Football History of Manchester: Festival Special Manchester Visitor Centre, Albert Square Chop House, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Ends at the Albert Square, 2.30pm National Football Museum July 20 Underground Manchester Sep 21 Underground Manchester Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, various times. Book with Quaytickets various times. Book with Quaytickets July 20 Manchester’s Fiery Political Sep 28 Airport 100 Years of Flight in Past: Festival Special Manchester. Airport Railway Albert Square Chop House, Station barrier, 10.30am Albert Square, 2.30pm Oct 12 Along the Ashton Canal from July 27 Alderley Edge Alderley Edge Manchester to the Fairfield station, 11am Moravian Settlement July 27 Cruise the Waterways of Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, Manchester Castlefield Hotel, 11am Liverpool Road, 11.30am SATURDAYS Jun 22, Jul 6, 13, 20, Aug 3, 10, 24, 31, Sep 7 SUNDAYS June 9, 16, 23, July 7, 14, 21, 28 Aug 4, 11, 18, Sep 1, 8, 15

SUNDAY

June 9 Literary Legends of Aug 4  Manchester TALK AT Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm MONASTERY, 12 noon Aug 11  & Gorton June 9 Manchester Town Hall 12 noon Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm Aug 11 Salford Quays MediaCity June 16 Underground stop, 12 noon Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, Aug 18 Radicals, Rebels & 2pm. Book with Quaytickets Revolutionaries TALK AT June 16 Manchester Town Hall GORTON MONASTERY, 12 noon Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm Aug 18 Manchester Town Hall June 23 Alan Turing Manchester Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm Museum, Oxford Road, 11am Aug 18 Wildlife on the River Irwell June 23 Didsbury in the Summer and Manchester Ship Canal Café Rouge, 653 , Opera House, 4pm 2pm Aug 25 C. P. Lee on Bob Dylan & June 30 Macclesfield Explorer the Manchester Folk Scene Macclesfield station, 11am , 70 Oxford Street, 2pm June 30 Manchester’s Religious History Sep 1 Underground Manchester TALK AT GORTON MONASTERY, Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, 12 noon various times. Book with Quaytickets June 30 Old Salford on a Sunday Sep 1 Psychogeographic King’s Arms, Bloom Street, 3pm Manchester July 7 Manchester Town Hall during Victoria Station wallmap, 3pm the Festival Albert Square Chop Sep 1 In Search of the River Medlock House, Albert Square, 2.30pm Lass O’Gowrie, Charles Street, 4pm July 14 Along the Bridgewater Canal Sep 8 Manchester Town Hall from Manchester to Worsley Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm Railway Station, 10.30am Sep 15 The Glories of Manchester July 14 The Industrial History of Architecture TALK AT GORTON Manchester Albert Square Chop MONASTERY, 12 noon House, Albert Square, 2.30pm Sep 15 The Opening of the World’s July 21 Gorton Monastery & Gorton 1st Railway Line Midland Hotel, 12 noon Peter Street, 2.30pm July 21 C. P. Lee’s “Manchester on Film” Sep 22 Underground Manchester Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, July 21 Manchester Town Hall during various times. Book with Quaytickets the Festival Albert Square Chop Sep 22 Manchester Town Hall House, Albert Square, 2.30pm Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm July 28 Manchester Town Hall Sep 29 The Stockport Explorer Midland Hotel Steps, 2.30pm Stockport station, 11am Aug 4 Underground Manchester Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, various times. Book with Quaytickets MONDAY

July 8 Architectural Glories of Aug 19 Spies, Spooks & Snouts Visitor Manchester: Festival Special Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2.30pm Albert Square Chop House, Albert Aug 19 Victoria Park on a Summer’s Square, 2.30pm Evening , July 8 Northern Quarter Pub Walk Oxford Road, 6pm Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, 6pm Aug 26 Bank Holiday Monday July 15 John Ryland’s Library & Ford Madox Brown’s Town Royal Exchange Albert Square Hall Murals Manchester Art Chop House, 2.30pm Gallery, , 12 noon July 15 Castlefield in the Evening Aug 26 The Manchester Music Tour Knott Bar, opposite Deansgate (Uptown version) Knott Bar, station, 6pm opposite Deansgate station, 3pm Aug 5 The Buxton Explorer Sep 9 Charles Dickens in Manchester Buxton station, 2.15pm Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am Aug 12 Cotton: Mills & Boom Sep 9 Winston Churchill’s Deansgate Station, 11am Manchester Malmaison Hotel, Aug 12 Cotton: The Great Palaces; No. 3 Piccadilly, 2pm the Ruthless Merchants Visitor Oct 7 The East Manchester Explorer Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2.30pm Metrolink stop, Aug 19 The Rusholme Explorer Hardy’s 2.30pm Well pub, 257 Wilmslow Road, 11am

TUESDAY

MORNING MANCHESTER TOWN HALL THE TOUR Explore Britain’s grandest Gothic municipal palace with the experts, whose knowledge of the Town Hall has been sought by Radio Manchester, the producers of Antiques Roadshow and the presenters of BBC’s The One Show. Tour devised by Ed Glinert, author of Penguin’s The Manchester Compendium.

Meet outside the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. Weekday tours finish in the Sculpture Hall cafe in time for lunch (optional).

Every Tuesday at 11am June 4, 11, 18, 25 July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Aug 6, 13, 20, 27 Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 TUESDAY

AFTERNOON & EVENING

June 4 Jewish Manchester: Aug 6 Angel Meadow on a Summer Cheetham Hill Trail Evening Victoria Station wallmap, Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm 6pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub July 2 Jewish Manchester: Aug 13 Strangeways Victoria Station City Centre Trail Midland Hotel, wallmap, 2.30pm Peter Street, 2pm Aug 20 Jewish Manchester: City July 9 Marx & Engels in Manchester Centre Trail Midland Hotel, Albert Square Chop House, Peter Street, 2pm Albert Square, 2.30pm Aug 20 The Manchester Art Walk July 16 Manchester’s Secret History entrance, 2pm Albert Square Chop House, Albert Sep 10 Manchester in the 60s Square, 2.30pm Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm July 23 Ancoats on a Summer Evening Oct 8 New Islington & Piccadilly Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, Village Explorer Malmaison 6pm. Ends at the Marble Arch pub Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 2pm Aug 6 Anthony Burgess’s Manchester St Ann’s Church, 2pm. Ends at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation centre

WEDNESDAY

June 5 Winston’s Churchill Aug 14 L. S. Lowry’s Manchester Manchester Malmaison Hotel, Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am No. 3 Piccadilly, 2pm Aug 14 L. S. Lowry’s Salford June 19 John Rylands Library Victoria station wallmap, 2.30pm & St Ann’s Church Aug 21 John Rylands Library & Outside St Ann’s Church, 11am the Royal Exchange June 26 Along the Manchester Ship St Ann’s Church, 11am Canal People’s History Museum, Aug 21 Jewish Manchester: Bridge Street, 2pm Cheetham Hill Trail July 3 John Rylands Library & Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm. the Royal Exchange Ends at the Jewish Museum St Ann’s Church, 11am Aug 28 Knutsford in the Summer July 3 Jewish Manchester: Above Knutsford station on Cheetham Hill Trail Toft Road, 11.15am Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm. Sep 4 L. S. Lowry in London – Ends at the Jewish Museum Trip to see the exhibition July 10 The Manchester Art Walk See under “L” elsewhere in leaflet. Albert Square Chop House, Booking only through Quaytickets Albert Square, 2.30pm Sep 11 Salford’s Hidden Gems July 17 City of Culture Albert Square Victoria Station wallmap, 11am Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm Sep 11 The Liverpool Explorer Adelphi July 24 John Rylands Library & Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon the Royal Exchange Sep 25 Victorian Manchester – St Ann’s Church, 11am The Glories Midland Hotel, July 31 Salford’s Hidden Gems Peter Street, 11am Victoria Station wallmap, 11am Sep 25 Victorian Manchester – Aug 7 Chorlton-on-Medlock Explorer The Horrors Oxford Road station, , Oxford 2.30pm Road, 12 noon. Ends at Victoria Oct 9 Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester Baths for the open day Victoria Station wallmap, 11am THURSDAY

June 6 The Pankhursts Malmaison Hotel, Aug 15 The Grand Hotels of No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am. (100th Manchester Visitor Centre, anniversary of Emily Davison’s death) Piccadilly Plaza, 11am June 6 Jewish Manchester – Aug 15 Newspaper History of City Centre Trail Midland Hotel, Manchester Midland Hotel Peter Street, 2pm steps, 2pm June 13 Manchester Town Hall in the Aug 15 Manchester Town Hall in the Evening Midland Hotel steps, Evening Midland Hotel steps, Peter Street, 5.30pm Peter Street, 5.30pm June 20 Rochdale Explorer Aug 22 Liverpool’s Glorious Georgian Rochdale station, 1pm Gems Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh July 4 Welcome to Manchester Place, 12 noon during the International Festival Aug 22 The Rochdale Pioneers Albert Square Chop House, Rochdale Pioneers’ Museum, Albert Square, 11am Toad Lane, 1pm July 4 American Manchester Aug 22 Didsbury on a Summer Evening Albert Square Chop House, Cafe Rouge, 653 Wilmslow Road, Albert Square, 4pm 5.30pm July 11 Welcome to Manchester Aug 22 Salford Quays in the Evening during the International Festival MediaCity Metrolink stop, 6pm Albert Square Chop House, Albert Aug 29  & Trafford Park Square, 11am Explorer Trafford Bar Metrolink July 11 Manchester’s Theatre History station, 11am Albert Square Chop House, Albert Sep 5 East Manchester Explorer Square, 2.30pm Etihad Campus Metrolink, 2.30pm July 1 Manchester Town Hall in the Sep 12 Political Heroes of Evening Midland Hotel steps, Manchester People’s History Peter Street, 5.30pm Museum, Bridge Street, 11am July 18 Welcome to Manchester Sep 12 Political Villains of during the International Festival Manchester People’s History Albert Square Chop House, Albert Museum, Bridge Street, 2.30pm Square, 11am Sep 12 Castlefield in the Evening July 18 The Manchester Art Walk Knott Bar, opposite Deansgate Albert Square Chop House, Albert station, 6pm Square, 2.30pm Sep 19 John Rylands Library & the July 18 Manchester Town Hall in the Royal Exchange Outside St Evening Midland Hotel steps, Ann’s Church, 11am Peter Street, 5.30pm Sep 26 John Rylands Library & St July 18 Cruise the Waterways of Ann’s Church Outside St Ann’s Manchester Outside the Church, 11am Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road, Sep 26 The Ancoats Explorer Band on 6pm. Please book with Quaytickets the Wall, Swan Street, 2.30pm Aug 8 John Rylands Library & Oct 3 Albert Square Meet Town Hall the Royal Exchange Sculpture Hall Café, 12 noon Outside St Ann’s Church, 11am Oct 10 The Pankhursts (Anniversary of Aug 8 Liverpool’s Wonderful the founding of the Women’s Social Waterfront Albert Dock Tourist and Political Union) Malmaison Information Centre, Anchor Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am Courtyard, 12 noon FRIDAYSUNDAY

WELCOME TO MANCHESTER Bienvenue, Willkommen, Bienvenidos A tour that cherry picks its way through the city’s gems, its architectural and historic past, its politics, famous men and women at all the major buildings while discovering how this industrial giant came to be. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am.

June 7, 14, 21, 28, Aug 9, 16, 23, 30 Sep 6, 13, 20, 27

June 7 Along the Ashton Canal July 12 Welcome to Manchester from Manchester to the during the International Festival Fairfield Moravian Settlement Albert Square Chop House, Albert Malmaison Hotel, Square, 11am No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am July 12 Hidden Manchester Pub Walk June 7 Literary Manchester Visitor Briton’s Protection, Great Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm Bridgewater St, 6pm. PUB WALK June 14 Hidden Gems of Manchester July 12 Peterloo Massacre: Festival Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Special Albert Square Chop Plaza, 1pm House, Albert Square, 2.30pm June 14 Architecture of Manchester July 19 Welcome to Manchester Revealed Meet Visitor Centre, during the International Festival Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm Albert Square Chop House, Albert June 21 Liverpool Explorer Adelphi Square, 11am Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon July 19 Architectural Glories of June 21 Manchester Music Visitor Manchester: Festival Special Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm Albert Square Chop House, Albert June 2 The Pubs of Old Manchester Square, 2.30pm Malmaison Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, July 19 Victorian Pubs of Manchester 6pm. PUB WALK Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm. June 28 Cruise the Waterways of PUB WALK Manchester Castlefield Hotel, Aug 2 Cruise the Waterways of Liverpool Road, 11.30am. Manchester Castlefield Hotel, Please book with Quaytickets Liverpool Road, 11.30am. Please June 28 Crime: The Wrong Side book with Quaytickets of the Law Victoria Station Aug 9 Castlefield Explorer wallmap, 1.30pm MOSI, Lower Byrom St, 1.30pm June 28 The Village Pub Walk Aug 9 Manchester in the 60s Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 6pm. PUB WALK 2pm July 5 Welcome to Manchester Aug 9 The Stockport Pub Walk during the International Festival Outside Stockport Station, 6pm. Albert Square Chop House, Albert PUB WALK Square, 11am Aug 16 Peterloo Massacre (From July 5 Cruise the Waterways of St Peter’s Fields to the site of the Manchester Castlefield Hotel, Henry Hunt Memorial) Midland Liverpool Road, 11.30am. Please Hotel, Peter Street, 11am book with Quaytickets Aug 16 Shudehill & Smithfield Pub July 5 L. S. Lowry’s Manchester Walk Victoria Station wallmap, Albert Square Chop House, 6pm. PUB WALK Albert Square, 2.30pm Aug 23 Hidden Gems of Manchester July 5 Literary Manchester Pub Tour Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1pm Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm. Aug 23 Adolphe Valette’s Manchester PUB WALK Art Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm FRIDAYSUNDAY

Aug 30 The Pankhursts Malmaison Sep 13 Hidden Manchester Pub Walk Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am Briton’s Protection, Great Aug 30 Politics & Poverty Visitor Bridgewater St, 6pm. PUB WALK Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm Sep 20 Manchester’s Theatre History Sep 6 Architecture of Manchester Outside Harvey Nichols, New – Oxford Street, St Ann’s and Cathedral Street, 1.30pm Deansgate Cornerhouse, Oxford Sep 20 Salford Quays MediaCity Street, 1.30pm Metrolink stop, 12 noon Sep 13 Manchester Town Hall: 136th Sep 27 The Formidable Women of anniversary of the opening of Manchester Visitor Centre, the building Midland Hotel, Peter Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm Street, 11am Oct 11 Liverpool’s Glorious Sep 13 The Co-op & Manchester Georgian Gems Adelphi Hotel, Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm Ranelagh Place, 12 noon

Thu July 4 WALKS DURING American Manchester MANCHESTER Fri July 5 L. S. Lowry’s Manchester INTERNATIONAL Sat 6 July FESTIVAL The Pankhursts Sun 7 July Thu 4 July– Sun 21 July Manchester Town Hall Mon 8 July Manchester’s Architectural Glories Tue 9 July “WELCOME TO MANCHESTER” Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels in Manchester Wed 10 July In town for the festival, new to Manchester The Manchester Art Walk or simply in need of a reminder of the Thu 11 July city’s riches, this is the ideal tour, a best Theatreland of everything, taking in the old and the Fri 12 July new, the ancient and the artful. We The Peterloo Massacre will head west to the great hotels, to Sat 13 July Castlefield and the canals one day; to Manchester’s Architectural Glories John Rylands Library, the Royal Exchange Sun 14 July and Chetham’s the next. Meet outside the Manchester’s Industrial History History Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, Mon 15 July 11am. Thu, Fri, Sat & Sun only John Ryland’s Library & Royal Exchange EXPLORING THE HISTORY Tue 16 July OF MANCHESTER Manchester’s Secret History Wed 17 July During the Manchester International City of Culture Festival we will be uncovering a different Thu 18 July strand of the city’s rich history – from the The Manchester Art Walk industrial revolution to the Pankhursts; Fri 19 July from its architectural glories to its secret Manchester’s Architectural Glories stories – every afternoon. Meet outside Sat 20 July the Albert Square Chop House, Albert Manchester’s Fiery Political Past Square, 2.30pm. Every day, Thu 4 Sun 21 July July-Sun 21 July Manchester Town Hall ANGEL MEADOW ON A SUMMER EVENING Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 6pm. A Ends at the Marble Arch pub. Tue 6 Aug AIRPORT IT’S ANTHONY BURGESS’ 100 Years of Flight in Manchester BACK MANCHESTER Discover Manchester’s contribution to The Future’s Clockwork; aviation history at the memorial garden, The Future’s Orange while experiencing one of the world’s top He was a polymath, polyglot and a pain 50 Airports. We include a rooftop tour to in the neck. Immensely talented and watch the largest passenger aircraft arrive insufferably egotistical, he chain smoked from Dubai. Meet at Airport Railway Station for and wrote more words than barrier, 10.30am. Sat 6 July, Sat 28 Sep Dickens, Wells and Trollope combined. Manchester was his city, which he loved so ALAN TURING much he lived in Monaco. Meet St Ann’s 101st Birthday Celebration Church, 2pm. Ends at the International He broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost Anthony Burgess Foundation Centre. invented the computer, and was persecuted Tue 6 Aug to a painful suicide by the ungrateful authorities. A tortured genius and modern ARCHITECTURAL GLORIES martyr. Meet Manchester Museum, Oxford OF MANCHESTER Road, 11am. Sun 23 June Festival Special ALBERT SQUARE As featured in The Independent’s Top 10 architecture walks of Britain. Meet Albert The History of Manchester Square Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. in One Square Mon 8 July, Sat 13 July, Fri 19 July Saints, statesmen, royals, ministers and warriors. Meet Town Hall Sculpture Hall ARCHITECTURE Café, 12 noon. Thu 3 Oct OF MANCHESTER Oxford Street, St Ann’s ALDERLEY EDGE and Deansgate Wizards, Wells Edwardian Palaces and the glories of the & Wonderful Views Victorian age. Meet Cornerhouse, Oxford Put on your walking shoes for a meander by Street, 1.30pm. Fri 6 Sep mansions, mines and magic stones… Meet Alderley Edge station, 11am. Sat 27 July, ARCHITECTURE OF Sat 7 Sep MANCHESTER REVEALED

AMERICAN MANCHESTER Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, ON JULY 4 1.30pm. Fri 14 June Kennedy & Lincoln, Dylan & Clinton, Hendrix, ART – ADOLPHE VALETTE Reagan & Robeson, not to mention all that A Manchester Impressionist doggone cotton. Meet outside Albert Square Experience this Manchester art treasure in Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. the Gallery and on the very streets where Thu 4 July he painted. Explore the clouded spires, the ANCOATS EXPLORER atmospheres and passing moments of an Edwardian jewel. Meet Manchester Art Smokey Old Town Gallery, Mosley Street, 1.30pm. Fri 23 Aug Meet outside the Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 2.30pm. Thu 26 Sep ART – THE MANCHESTER ART WALK ANCOATS ON A SUMMER EVENING Pre-Raphaelites, Lowry, Valette, Lord Leighton, Francis Bacon and Norman What was Manchester’s Little Italy and the Adams’ Stations of the Cross. Meet world’s first industrial suburb is now a land Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, of spooky mills and dusty streets. Meet 2.30pm. Wed 10 July, Thu 18 July Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. Meet Manchester Art Gallery entrance, Ends at the Marble Arch pub. Tue 23 July 2pm. Tue 20 Aug IT’S CHARLES DICKENS BACK IN MANCHESTER Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. B Mon 9 Sep BEATLES’ LIVERPOOL CHORLTON-ON-MEDLOCK 50 years since the release of “She Loves EXPLORER You”. Meet Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, Britain’s biggest university, a cathedral-like 12 noon. Sat 24 Aug Catholic church, Engels’ & Marx’s postbox, the and enough hospitals BRIDGEWATER CANAL to save the NHS. Meet Manchester Museum, Britain’s First Canal Oxford Road, 12 noon. Ends at A slow saunter along the entire original for the open day. Wed 7 Aug Bridgewater Canal route, from Castlefield to Worsley, to mark the anniversary of CITY OF CULTURE the opening of Britain’s first canal. Bring The greatest collection of art treasures ever refreshments and plenty of energy. seen, Britain’s oldest orchestra, and the Meet outside Deansgate Railway Station, country’s most spectacular theatre. Meet 10.30am. Sun 14 July Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, BUXTON DAY TRIPPER 2.30pm. Wed 17 July Georgian Jewel in CO-OP & MANCHESTER the Heart of the Peaks Making Walks History Meet outside Buxton station, 2.15pm. “Good with food”, ethical banking, the Mon 5 Aug Pioneers, the Divi and Robert Owen’s model villages. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm. Fri 13 Sep

COTTON MILLS AND BOOM C Manchester was once a city of smoking, C. P. LEE’S choking cotton-spinning factories – “MANCHESTER ON FILM” monuments to Mammon and machinery towering over a population of factory hands Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm. and mill girls. Meet outside Deansgate Sun 21 July station, 11am. Mon 12 Aug

C. P. LEE ON BOB DYLAN & COTTON THE MANCHESTER FOLK SCENE The Great Palaces, Meet Cornerhouse, 70 Oxford Street, 2pm. The Ruthless Merchants Sun 25 Aug Cotton was the cloth that cut Manchester, the shrub on which the city’s wealth was CASTLEFIELD EXPLORER built. We visit its great buildings: the Town Birthplace of Manchester, Hall, topped by a golden cotton boll; the Birthplace of Industry Royal Exchange “Parliament of the Cotton Ancient aeroplanes, Britain’s oldest canal, Lords”; and John Rylands Library, alongside the world’s 1st railway station, the Roman tales of its tireless traders: Cobden, Owen, fort and Coronation Street. Meet MOSI, Owens, Rothschild & Rylands. Meet Visitor Lower Byrom Street, 1.30pm. Fri 9 Aug Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 2.30pm. Mon 12 Aug CASTLEFIELD IN THE EVENING CRIME The light glints across the canals and the The Wrong Side of the Law steam train whistles in the distance as the paparazzi doze outside Coronation Street. Murderers, body snatchers, mobsters, Meet Knott Bar, opposite Deansgate station, hangmen, rich men, poor men, beggar men. 6pm. Mon 15 July, Mon 12 Aug, Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm. Thu 12 Sep Fri 28 June CRUISE THE WATERWAYS ELIZABETH GASKELL’S OF MANCHESTER MANCHESTER New Manchester Walks on Water More North Than South Take to the water on our 3-hour canal cruise Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 11am. around the old Port of Manchester, once the Wed 9 Oct fourth biggest in Britain, yet 35 miles from the sea. We head along the Bridgewater Canal, England’s first man-made waterway, through Pomona Lock, to the Manchester Ship Canal and on to Salford Quays, MediaCity and . F FAIRFIELD MORAVIAN This is a cruise with lively historical SETTLEMENT commentary. Booking essential through Quaytickets: www.quaytickets.com, A long trek along the Ashton Canal in 0843 208 0500. Meet outside the search of the gorgeous graceful Georgian Castlefield Hotel, Liverpool Road. Cost: £15. gem of Fairfield. Meet Malmaison Hotel, Licenced bar, tea and coffee, but please 3 Piccadilly, 11am. Fri 7 June, Sat 12 Oct bring your own snacks. Regret no wheelchair access. Children must be 7+. FOOTBALL HISTORY Fri 28 June (11.30am), Fri 5 July OF MANCHESTER (11.30am), Thu 18 July (6pm), From the birth of the Football League to Sat 27 July (11.30am), Fri 2 Aug the top of the Premier League. Meet Visitor (11.30am), Sat 10 Aug (11.30am) Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am kick-off. Ends at the National Football Museum. D Sat 29 June, Sat 21 Sep DIDSBURY IN THE EVENING It’s Posh Down South G Grand villas, Gothic towers and glorious IT’S GEORGE BEST’S gardens. In association with the Didsbury BACK MANCHESTER Arts Festival. Meet outside Cafe Rouge, The Good, the Bad & the Bubbly 653 Wilmslow Road, 5.30pm. Thu 22 Aug Maradona good, Pele better, George best. DIDSBURY IN THE SUMMER A jinking run through the wing wizard’s Manchester 50 years to the day since his It’s Posh Down South debut. Meet National Football Museum, Grand villas, Gothic towers and glorious Cathedral Gardens, 11am. Sat 14 Sep gardens. In association with the Didsbury Arts Festival. Meet outside Cafe Rouge, GORTON MONASTERY & GORTON 653 Wilmslow Road, 2pm. Sun 23 June Beautifully restored, Gorton Monastery is a work of Gothic genius that has been placed alongside the Taj Mahal as one of the world’s 100 most endangered buildings. Meet at Gorton Monastery, Gorton Lane, 12 noon. E Booking only via events@themonastery. EAST MANCHESTER EXPLORER co.uk, 0161 223 3211. Cost: £7.50. Sun 21 July, Sun 11 Aug Smokey Old Town to Sportcity Once choked with heavy industry – coal mines, chemical works and engineering depots – east Manchester is now to SportCity, including Manchester City and the Velodrome cycling venue, beside the Ashton Canal, River Medlock and Philips Park. Meet Etihad Campus Metrolink stop, 2.30pm. Mon 7 Oct JEWISH MANCHESTER Cheetham Hill Trail Traces of the old Jewish Ghetto remain, H including synagogues that are now HAWORTH BRONTË (non-kosher) shops and the bacon-curing COUNTRY DAY TRIPPER factory alongside Torah Street (yes, really). Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 1.30pm. Out on the wiley, windy moors, we’ll roll and Ends at the Jewish Museum. Tue 4 June, fall in green… and walk in the footsteps of Wed 3 July, Wed 21 Aug the Brontë sisters. Meet outside Haworth steam railway station, 11am. Sat 22 June JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY & THE ROYAL EXCHANGE HIDDEN GEMS OF MANCHESTER Festival Special A Georgian gem, a Gothic prison, John Ryland’s Library – “the Taj Mahal of subterranean bank vaults, “Solomon’s the North”. The Royal Exchange: once the Temple” and mediaeval cloistered world’s biggest trading room and now its seclusion. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly greatest theatre-in-the-round. Two classic Plaza, 1pm. Fri 14 June, Fri 23 Aug buildings; one great tour. Meet Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. HOTELS OF MANCHESTER Mon 15 July The Britannia, Queen’s, Grand, Palace, JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY Midland, Radisson…We won’t be able to & THE ROYAL EXCHANGE order room service at each, but we will find room for some five-star tales before the John Ryland’s Library – “the Taj Mahal of the Brown Windsor soup arrives. Meet Visitor North”. The Royal Exchange: once the world’s Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Thu 15 Aug biggest trading room and now its greatest theatre-in-the-round. Two classic buildings; one great tour. Meet outside St Ann’s Church, 11am. Wed 3 July, Wed 24 July, I Thu 8 Aug, Wed 21 Aug, Thu 19 Sep JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY INDUSTRIAL HISTORY & ST ANN’S CHURCH OF MANCHESTER Two worshipped buildings. One awesome Festival Special tour. Meet outside St Ann’s Church, 11am. Rolls Royce, railways, great big engines, Wed 19 June, Thu 26 Sep magnificent machines.Meet Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. Sun 14 July IRA BOMB 1996 K Manchester destroyed – 17 years to the KNUTSFORD IN THE SUMMER day. Meet outside Selfridge’s, Exchange Square, 11am. Sat 15 June The Gaskells, Tatton, General Patton and the maddest architecture in the North-West. In association with , Manchester, where was chairman 1849–84. Meet above Knutsford J station on Toft Road, 11.15pm. Wed 28 Aug JEWISH MANCHESTER City Centre Trail From Sabbath to Sabbath, from sunrise to sunset, wise guys, mavens, schnorrers and schmutter merchants have schmoozed and schlepped their way across the city centre. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 2pm. Thu 6 June, Tue 2 July, Tue 20 Aug LIVERPOOL & THE BEATLES 50 years since the release of “She Loves You”. Meet Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, L 12 noon. Sat 24 Aug L. S. LOWRY IN LONDON LIVERPOOL EXPLORER Trip to London John, Paul, George & Ringo; Bessy, Degsy & At last the art world has acknowledged Arthur Askey; Cracker, Macca, the Wacker L. S. Lowry with a major exhibition at Quacker and that there Titanic. Meet outside Tate Britain. To mark this, New Manchester the Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon. Walks is arranging a trip to the capital to Fri 21 June, Wed 11 Sep view the paintings, many never before seen in public. The tour includes entrance to the exhibition followed by an optional short walk around the locale (the Thames, Jeffrey Archer’s apartment block, MI6 HQ…) with our guides.

Meet by the entrance to Platform 10

Euston Station, Wed 4 Sep, 12.30pm.

Cost: £23.50 (Concessions £21.50).

London tube ticket included. Rail transport

between Manchester and London not included. (Virgin train takes just over 2 hrs). LIVERPOOL’S GLORIOUS See our website for more details. GEORGIAN GEMS Booking only through Quaytickets. Meet outside the Adelphi Hotel, Ranelagh Place, 12 noon. Thu 22 Aug, Fri 11 Oct L. S. LOWRY’S MANCHESTER LIVERPOOL ON THE Meet Albert Square Chop House, 2.30pm. THE WATERFRONT Fri 5 July Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11am. Wed 14 Aug Dozens of docks, “Three Graces”, two road tunnels, one stunning city by the sea. L. S. LOWRY’S SALFORD Meet Albert Dock Tourist Information Centre, Anchor Courtyard, 12 noon. Thu 8 Aug Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 2.30pm. Wed 14 Aug

LINDOW MOSS M Put on your sturdy walking shoes for a tour through the history of Wilmslow, before MACCLESFIELD we reach Ice-age Lindow Moss for stories Beyond the Silk Road of murder and sacrifice.Meet outside Leave the Mancunian cotton mills for the Wilmslow station, 11am. Sat 24 Aug Maxonian silk mills in a town with a history LITERARY MANCHESTER dating back to the Domesday book that boasts a 13th Century parish church and Stories by and about Dickens, De Quincey, 16th century school. We finish in the town’s Disraeli, Burgess, Gaskell. Meet Visitor famous “Treacle market”. Meet outside Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm. Fri 7 June Macclesfield station, 11am. Sun 30 June

LITERARY MANCHESTER MANCHESTER IN THE PUB WALK SWINGING ’60s “It was the best of pints; it was the worst Best, beat clubs, boutiques, the Beatles & of pints.” So begins Charles Dickens’s brutalist buildings. Meet Visitor Centre, classic drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities. Piccadilly Plaza, 2pm. Fri 9 Aug, Tue 10 Sep We will drink to the spirits of Anthony Burgess, Brendan Behan and Thomas De Quincey on the barstools of the literary taverns of Manchester. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm. Fri 5 July MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER The Frock-Coated Communists Meet outside the Albert Square Chop N House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. Tue 9 July NEW ISLINGTON & PICCADILLY MUSIC – THE MANCHESTER VILLAGE EXPLORER MUSIC TOUR Cotton, canals and “Chips” with everything. Downtown version Meet Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 2pm. Tue 8 Oct Forget Memphis and Merseybeat, Manchester is Music City with a soundtrack IT’S NEWSPAPER HISTORY to die for courtesy of The Smiths, Fall, BACK OF MANCHESTER New Order, Joy Division, Elbow, Buzzcocks, Publish and Be Damned Happy Mondays. Walk led by John Alker. (not approved by Lord Leveson) Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm. Fri 21 June Manchester was once the Northern home of the Press; a hack’s haven, with the largest MUSIC – THE MANCHESTER production plant in Europe. Then came MUSIC TOUR colour TV, computers and t’Internet. Meet Uptown version Midland Hotel steps, 2pm. Thu 15 Aug The sights and sites where Manchester NORTHERN QUARTER music history was made: the Free Trade PUB WALK Hall, Ritz, Haci, Boardwalk, Central Station, Temple of Convenience, Mozza’s workplace… Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, Walk led by one-time Mojo magazine writer modish Manchester. Meet Malmaison Ed Glinert. Meet Knott Bar, opposite Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. Mon 8 July Deansgate station, 3pm. Mon 26 Aug

KEY DATES IN MANCHESTER HISTORY O OLD TRAFFORD & 15 June 1996 TRAFFORD PARK EXPLORER The IRA Bomb. See our bomb walk. Great Art Treasures, White City, James 17 July 1761 Anderton, Man United, Bridgewater Canal, The Bridgewater Canal opens. Ford cars, Metrovik’s and Kellogg’s. Meet See our canal walks and cruises. Trafford Bar Metrolink station, 11am. 16 August 1819 Thu 29 Aug The Peterloo Massacre. See our Peterloo walks. 13 September 1877 Manchester Town Hall opens. See our Town Hall tours. P 14 September 1963 IT’S PSYCHOGEOGRAPHIC George Best’s debut. See our George BACK MANCHESTER WEIRD CITY Best’s Manchester walk. John Dee, the Kabbalah, sacred geometry, 15 September 1830 the Golden Ratio and Masonic funny World’s 1st passenger railway line business. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, opens in Manchester. See our 3pm. Sun 1 Sep railway walk. 10 October 1903 Women’s Social & Political Union is formed. See our Pankhurst walks. 23 November 1867 Execution of the Fenians. See our Fenians walk, next leaflet. IS FOR IS FOR P POLITICAL WALKS P PUB WALKS

Acerbic analysis and awesome These are the pubs where Manchester anecdotes about Engels, Marx, Cobden, floats on a sea of mild and bitter, and Gladstone, Disraeli, the Pankhursts, “gastro” means Holt’s rather than haute Peterloo, Churchill, Mosley, “Red Ed”, cuisine. Bring your own Woodbines. Nick and Dave run in association with the People’s History Museum. CASTLEFIELD MANCHESTER’S FIERY Ancient aeroplanes, Britain’s oldest canal, POLITICAL PAST the world’s 1st railway station, the Roman fort and Coronation Street. Meet Knott Bar, , Chartists, Peterloo, fascists opposite Deansgate station, 6pm. Mon 15 and the mob. Meet outside the Albert July, Thu 12 Sep Square Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. Sat 20 July HIDDEN MANCHESTER MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER Far from the madding crowds are the barely-noticed places where serious The Frock-Coated Communists thinking and drinking set the world to rights. Meet outside the Albert Square Chop Meet Briton’s Protection, 50 Great House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. Tue 9 July Bridgewater Street, 6pm. Fri 12 July

PANKHURSTS LITERARY MANCHESTER CITY “It was the best of pints; it was the worst of Walk in the footsteps of the family that won pints.” So begins Charles Dickens’s classic women the vote. Meet Malmaison Hotel, drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities. Meet No. 3 Piccadilly, 11am. Thu 6 June, Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm. Fri 5 July Fri 30 Aug, Thu 10 Oct NORTHERN QUARTER PETERLOO MASSACRE Boho Manchester, cool Manchester, On the 194th anniversary of the events we modish Manchester. Meet Malmaison are leading a walk from St Peter’s Fields, the Hotel, 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. Mon 8 July site of the trouble, to the Ancoats location where the Peterloo memorial stood. Meet OLD SALFORD Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. Fri 16 Aug Up and down Chapel Street, in and out of POLITICAL HEROES the Eagle, the King’s Arms and maybe The OF MANCHESTER Oxford and The Crescent to drink in tales of fervent Victorian vegetarian vicars, Ewan Cobden, Engels, Gladstone, the Pankhursts, MacColl and Love on the Dole. Meet King’s Robeson and assorted Trots, liberals Arms, Bloom Street, 3pm. Sun 30 June and free-thinkers. Meet People’s History Museum, Bridge Street, 11am. Thu 12 Sep PUBS OF OLD MANCHESTER POLITICAL VILLAINS These are the pubs that time forgot, where OF MANCHESTER Manchester floats on a sea of mild and bitter, and “gastro” means Holt’s rather Mosley, Wellington, Castlereagh, Lord than haute cuisine. Bring your own Haw-Haw, and assorted headbangers and Woodbines. Meet Malmaison Hotel, fascists. Meet People’s History Museum, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. Fri 21 June Bridge Street, 2.30pm. Thu 12 Sep SHUDEHILL & SMITHFIELD POLITICS & POVERTY Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 6pm. Hard Times Fri 16 Aug Cholera pits, mills and maelstroms, scuttlers and hawkers. Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 1.30pm. Fri 30 Aug continued overleaf

IT’S RIVER MEDLOCK IS FOR BACK The River That P PUB WALKS Manchester Forgot Meet Lass O’Gowrie pub, Charles Street, 4pm. Sun 1 Sep STOCKPORT Meet outside Stockport Station, 6pm. ROCHDALE EXPLORER Fri 9 Aug Pioneers, political giants, Jacobites, Chartists, free-traders, hangmen and THE VICTORIAN PUBS murderers. Meet outside Rochdale station, OF MANCHESTER 1pm. Thu 20 June Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 6pm. Fri 19 July ROCHDALE PIONEERS They dared to change the world, not with IT’S THE politics or weapons but with a humble BACK VILLAGE shop. The 28 Rochdale Pioneers invented The one-time red light district by an the Co-op and now number 850 million. unloved canal is now Manchester’s Meet outside the Rochdale Pioneers’ grand parade ground. Meet Malmaison Museum, Toad Lane, 1pm Thu 22 Aug Hotel, No. 3 Piccadilly, 6pm. Fri 28 June RUSHOLME EXPLORER Manchester’s very own film studio, the Gallery of English Costume, a ditch built to stop the Danes and a former FA Cup Q Final venue. Meet outside Hardy’s Well pub, 257 Wilmslow Road (junction with QUAYS – THE FALL & RISE Dickenson Road), 11am. Mon 19 Aug OF SALFORD DOCKS Huge docks which once harboured the world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming museums of the modern age. A world famous canal, as deep as Suez, as powerful S as the Panama. We explore the old docks, SALFORD’S HIDDEN GEMS now home of Centre, where a new city – MediaCity – has risen. The real tennis club, the old Town Hall, a Meet MediaCity Metrolink stop. classical gem funded by Parliament amid Sun 11 Aug (12 noon), Thu 22 Aug fears of uprisings on the city streets and (6pm), Fri 20 Sep (12 noon) the Catholic Cathedral. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, 11am. £6 (donation to church) Wed 31 July, Wed 11 Sep

SECRET HISTORY OF MANCHESTER R RAILWAYS – The atomic bunker, demolition of the Town THE OPENING OF THE WORLD’S Hall, paintings attacked in the Art Gallery, 1ST RAILWAY LINE L. S. Lowry the sadist, racist GIs, riots at the Royal Exchange and Churchill’s secret The world’s first passenger railway service, shelter. Meet outside the Albert Square the Liverpool-Manchester Railway, opened Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. this day in 1830, but the events were Tue 16 July marred by the death of a cabinet minister and the stoning of the prime minister’s SHIP CANAL carriage. No wonder the trains don’t always run on time. Meet Midland Hotel, Peter Along the Manchester Ship Canal from the Street, 2.30pm. Sun 15 Sep city centre to the old docks. Meet People’s History Museum, Bridge Street, 2pm. Wed 26 June “MANCHESTER... THE BELLY AND GUTS

OF THE NATION.” George Orwell From “The Road to Wigan Pier”, 1937

SPIES, SPOOKS & SNOUTS IT’S TOWN HALL Cloak & Dagger Manchester BACK CLOCK TOWER

Who is the MI9 mole that has leaked the From the top of Manchester Town Hall we details of this tour to New Manchester climb the spiral stairs to see the mechanics Walks? Even though all further details have of the chiming clock, stand behind the giant been suppressed, we can reveal that it hands, walk the open-air parapet with its meets at the Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, unmatchable views across Manchester and 2.30pm. Mon 19 Aug huddle beneath the mighty bell, Great Abel. Tours are scheduled to resume in the STOCKPORT EXPLORER summer. Booking only through the Town Hats, Hills & Fred Perry Hall. For private tours, contact New ’Cross the Mersey Manchester Walks.

Meet outside Stockport station, 11am. TOWN HALL MURALS Sun 29 Sep The Stories Behind the Paintings STRANGEWAYS A detailed look at Ford Madox Brown’s Get Out of Jail Free Pre-Raphaelite murals in the Town Hall’s

Great Hall. Meet at Manchester Art Gallery, More than just a prison, Strangeways is Mosley Street, 12 noon. Bank Holiday also a red light district, right next to the city Mon 26 Aug centre, where the buildings are crumbling, the streets are never cleaned and unmarked cars patrol in case anyone’s planning a jail break. Nice. Meet Victoria Station wallmap, IS FOR 2.30pm. Tue 13 Aug T TOWN HALL T See back page for details THEATRELAND Tread the Boards Re-enact the history of Manchester’s theatrical past and present; its famous names, plays and players. Meet Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square, 2.30pm. Thu 11 July Meet outside Harvey Nichols, New Cathedral Street, 1.30pm. Fri 20 Sep IS FOR TALKS AT T GORTON MONASTERY V Meet at Gorton Monastery, Gorton Lane, VICTORIA PARK ON 12 noon. Booking recommended A SUMMER’S EVENING via [email protected], 0161 223 3211. Cost: £7.50. Sumptuous tree-lined streets and spooky crumbling mansions fill Manchester’s ARCHITECTURAL GLORIES original garden village. Meet outside the OF MANCHESTER Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, 6pm.

Mon 19 Aug Merchants’ palaces, Gothic towers, Baroque fantasies and Classical temples. VICTORIAN MANCHESTER No wonder the Builder magazine once The Glories claimed: “There is nothing to equal Manchester since the building of Venice.” Gothic grandeur, democracy, free trade, Sun 15 Sep Pre-Raphaelite paintings, education, full employment, war is over. Meet outside LITERARY LEGENDS the Midland Hotel, Peter Street, 11am. OF MANCHESTER Wed 25 Sep

Stories by and about Dickens, De Quincey, VICTORIAN MANCHESTER Disraeli, Burgess, Gaskell... Sun 9 June The Horrors MARTYRS & MYSTICS: Cholera, chimneys, tripe, riots, poverty, MANCHESTER’S RELIGIOUS squalor, slums and mill fever. HISTORY Meet outside Oxford Road station, 2.30pm.

Wed 25 Sep Manchester has long attracted not just those who worship God but those who thought they were God. The trouble is if you all want to do is worship your God there are always those who want to stop you. Sun 30 June W WELCOME TO MANCHESTER RADICALS, REBELS & REVOLUTIONARIES See beginning of A-Z

Manchester’s fiery political history, in WILDLIFE OF memory of Peterloo. Sun 18 Aug THE SHIP CANAL Join Steve Bourne on a city centre ramble to seek out our peregrine family, before we walk beside a river to catch a glimpse of a sparrowhawk and even a kingfisher. Learn to recognise a few bird calls too. Meet U Opera House, , 4pm. Sun 18 Aug UNDERGROUND MANCHESTER What You’re Overlooking WINSTON CHURCHILL’S MANCHESTER The North-West’s most popular tour – His Finest Hours as featured in the Daily Telegraph and Manchester Evening News. Bring a torch A colossus of the 20th century who and stout shoes. Unsuitable for children. represented Manchester in Parliament, Cost £9. Meet outside the Midland Hotel, championed free trade but so annoyed the Peter Street, various times throughout the Suffragettes. Meet Malmaison Hotel, No. 3 day. Booking essential through Quaytickets: Piccadilly, 2pm. Wed 5 June, Mon 9 Sep www.quaytickets.com, 0843 208 0500. Sat 8 June, Sat 15 June, Sun 16 June, WOMEN – THE FORMIDABLE Sat 29 June, Sat 13 July, Sat 20 July, WOMEN OF MANCHESTER Sat 3 Aug, Sun 4 Aug, Sat 17 Aug, Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, Sat 31 Aug, Sun 1 Sep, Sat 14 Sep, 1.30pm. Fri 27 Sep Sat 21 Sep, Sun 22 Sep Just turn up for tours except Underground MORE THAN Manchester and Canal Cruise which must be booked through Quaytickets at www. JUST WALKS... quaytickets.com, phone 0843 208 0500. Places on the Gorton Monastery tour and talks must be booked with the Monastery New Manchester Walks is by e-mailing [email protected] an official walks, talks and or phoning 0161 223 3211. But do please let tours outfit of Institute of us know if you’re bringing a group on any tour.

Tourist Guiding-examined Prices: Most walks cost £5. Green and Blue Badge Salford Hidden Gems £6. Gorton Monastery £7.50. guides, plus celebrity (money goes mostly to the Monastery) guests, with decades of Underground £9. experience in the tourism Canal Cruise £15. business in Manchester, Most walks last 1½ to 2 hours. Canalside London and around the world. walks and explorer trips can take 3 hours.

PRIVATE TOURS All our tours can be booked privately. Underground Manchester, the canal cruise and Manchester Town Hall are ideal for your social club, history group or office.

COACH TOURS Book a coach tour for your social club, history group, works outfit, conference, association, business guests or tour party. These can be tailored to your requirements. Here are some of our tours:

Manchester Highlights Town Hall, world’s first railway station, Chinatown, Salford Quays and MediaCity, Old Trafford, University, cotton warehouses, stadiums of Sportcity, Gorton Monastery, Fairfield Moravian Settlement.

Sport, Stars & Stadiums A sporting tour of a city famous for football, cricket, cycling and rugby including the Etihad, Velodrome, both Old Traffords, Salford City Reds...

Chi-Chi Cheshire Alderley Edge, Jodrell Bank, the architectural gems of Knutsford, picturesque Peover villages, George Best’s “Que Sera”, Tabley House...

Coronation Street Locations Studios old and new, Richard Hillman’s watery grave, St Mary’s wedding venue, the Red Rec, the real Coronation Street... We can’t get on the set but we can go everywhere else!

Yorkshire of Yore Handsome stone-hewn hot-spots in the hills of Hebden Bridge, Heptonstall, Howarth and Holmfirth. Last of the summer wine? First of the summer tours!

Liver-ly, Luvver-ly Liverpool World Heritage Waterfront, Albert Dock, Anfield, Penny Lane, Strawberry Field, two Cathedrals...

For full details see www.newmanchesterwalks.com

TALKS We are hosting talks on many aspects of Manchester history – architecture, royalty, the Pankhursts, Marx & Engels, religion and much more – at glorious Gorton Monastery on occasional Sunday afternoons. See Sunday list of events.

Our guides have given talks at the Portico Library, , the Lass O’Gowrie and a host of other venues on these subjects as well as Underground Manchester, the Manchester Ship Canal and Docks, football, Jewish Manchester, music, politics... for social groups, societies and clubs such as the U3A, WI and the National Trust. Contact Ed Glinert on 07769 298068 or Sue Grimditch 07884 001315 at New Manchester Walks for more details.

Also see our Town Hall Clock Tower Coach Tours & Cruises & Town Hall Murals tours Town Hall Tour

Explore Britain’s grandest municipal Tuesdays, 11am palace with the experts on a tour June 4, 11, 18, 25 featured by Radio Manchester, BBC’s July 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 Antiques Roadshow and The One Show. Aug 6, 13, 20, 27 Sep 3, 10, 17, 24 Manchester Town Hall opened in 1877 Thursdays, 5.30pm as the supreme example of Northern June 13 municipal pride; a building that was July 11, 18 lavishly and exquisitely decorated but Aug 15 also practical to use. Friday, 11am Sep 13 (anniversary of the 1877 The architect, Alfred Waterhouse, opening of the Town Hall) modelled the Town Hall on a mediaeval Sundays, 2.30pm Flemish cloth hall in honour of the June 9, 16 cloth workers from the lowlands who July 7, 21, 28 aided the local textile economy in the (On July 7 & 21 the walk will start outside 14th century. the Albert Square Chop House, Albert Square) Aug 4, 18 On a New Manchester Walks Town Hall Sep 8, 22 tour we explore every story, every angle: the glorious , the Ford Madox Brown Murals, the statues, £5. Meet outside the Midland Hotel, Peter the building’s religious symbolism, the Street. End the weekday morning tour at the Sculpture Hall Café for lunch (optional) portraits, politics – even the prison cell.