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More than 10 years of
expert, enlightening and
Jan – Dec 2020
entertaining tours in and
around Manchester
POLITICS MUSIC
ART STYLE
HEROES HEROINES
Welcome to Manchester, the capital of THE MAIN SIGHTS
the North, the world’s first industrial city –
These are the most magnificent and visited Manchester
the industrial strength city. We at New buildings, linked with our regular tours, perfect for the WI,
Manchester Walks have developed a unique Probus, U3A, private groups, social clubs, history groups...
and remarkable range of tours covering CENTRAL LIBRARY MANCHESTER CATHEDRAL
every aspect of local history. Outside it resembles Rome’s Pantheon.
Inside there are touches of St Peter’s Basilica.
The heart of mediaeval Manchester
and an ancient place of worship.
All around is Britain’s biggest public book Monthly tours, mostly midweek,
collection and a heroes’ gallery of the city. in conjunction with Chetham’s
PRIVATE TOURS COACH TRIPS Regular tours; particularly popular with
private groups MANCHESTER TOWN HALL
Okay, it’s closed for vital repairs for a few
Book any tour, any time, for your WI, Book an exhilarating and expertly
CHETHAM’S LIBRARY AND SCHOOL years, but Ed Glinert’s Town Hall book is
Probus, U3A group, social club, history entertaining tour for your group, club,
Ancient 15th century cloisters and corners the next best thing.
society... office or society.
of a former college of priests that now
hosts Europe’s oldest library and was ROYAL EXCHANGE
INFORMATION • Panoramic Manchester
• The Beatles’ Liverpool
where Marx & Engels planned communism. It was the world’s biggest trading room,
Monthly tours, mostly midweek, in where top-hatted Victorian gentlemen
• Coronation Street locations
New Manchester Walks is an official walks, conjunction with the Cathedral staged cotton deals and where now the
• Wild and Wuthering Yorkshire
talks and tours outfit of professionally- nation’s finest thespians trade lines.
• Football landmarks of Manchester
trained and qualified Blue Badge and Green JOHN RYLANDS LIBRARY Included on various tours: Cotton, John
Badge guides (plus celebrity guests) with Glorious Gothic architecture, holy texts and Rylands Library, and The 7 Wonders of
decades of experience in the tourism TALKS priceless artefacts fill one of the world’s Manchester.
business in Manchester, Liverpool, London most awe-inspiring palaces of culture and
and around the world. Book a speaker for a talk on all aspects of greatest libraries, built out of the love of ST ANN’S CHURCH
Manchester or London history: architecture, a wealthy widow for Manchester’s most Manchester’s only city centre Georgian
Most walks cost little more than £10. Marx & Engels in Manchester, the Town successful 19th century merchant. church features stunning stained glass
Where possible please book on eventbrite Hall Murals, Jack the Ripper, L. S. Lowry, Monthly tours windows and magnificent memorials
to avoid disappointment as many of our Peterloo, industry and inventions, the salvaged from long lost places of worship.
tours are now so popular. Walks tend to Pankhursts, royal scandal down the ages... MANCHESTER ART GALLERY Included on the John Rylands Library tour,
last up to two hours. Canal and countryside We do talks at the Portico Library, Gorton One of the greatest collections of the Great Art Treasures and the 7 Wonders
walks are usually longer. Monastery, Central Library, the St James’s Pre-Raphaelites’ paintings housed in of Manchester.
Club and at a variety of hired venues. Charles Barry’s Classical-styled former
The leaflet has been compiled by Ed Glinert, Contact Ed Glinert at New Manchester gentlemen’s club.
long-established Manchester, Liverpool Walks for more details. Featured in “The Great Art Treasures
and London journalist, tour guide, cruise of Manchester”, the Pre-Raphaelites,
ships speaker and Penguin author.
WEATHER Lowry and Valette tours Central Library’s Reading Room,
modelled on Rome’s Pantheon
Many of our tours are picture led. It all adds
No one wants to walk around in torrential
to the experience.
rain. Occasionally it might not be possible
to conduct a tour through inclement
Most city walks are wheelchair
weather. If in doubt, please see website
accessible.
before setting off.
LAST MINUTE CHECKS
Please see website for dates and book
with eventbrite, where possible, but do
check the website before setting off.
www.newmanchesterwalks.com
info@newmanchesterwalks.com
Twitter: @manchestertours
Facebook: /newmanchesterwalks
07769 298 068
THE MAIN SIGHTS ARCHITECTURE
Classical styled temples, Gothic spires, Italianate palazzi,
baroque banks and modernist towers. But did you know, so
many major Manchester buildings were deliberately designed
to look like an existing European or American structure?
The Town Hall as Ypres Cloth Hall;
The Free Trade Hall, the Palazzo della Gran Guardia;
City Tower, the United Nations Building...
all explained in the tours listed below.
LE CORBUSIER’S MANCHESTER MANCHESTER’S MOST
The most influential architect of the BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS
20th century never came to Manchester
but his influence is everywhere. MASTERPIECES OF MANCHESTER
ART & ARCHITECTURE
MANCHESTER’S GLORIOUS Manchester is one of the great Victorian
VICTORIAN ARCHITECTURE cities, a riot of stone in Classical, Italianate,
Gothic and Baroque.
ART
The Lake (1937), L. S. Lowry
Clockwise from top:
Rylands Library,
Manchester and Salford captured in all their industrial
Royal Exchange glory by L. S. Lowry, and in strange subdued colourings
Theatre, Manchester
Cathedral and of mauves and Turneresque greens by the great French
Chetham’s Library impressionist Adolphe Valette. This is the home of an
unrivalled collection of Pre-Raphaelites and the greatest
new British religious paintings of the 20th century.
ADOLPHE VALETTE THE PRE-RAPHAELITES
A Frenchman in Manchester left an Britain’s greatest ever art movement gave
unforgettable impression of the city. us the epic Work, the gorgeous Light of the
World, the disturbing Scapegoat and the
L. S. LOWRY’S LONELY LIFE sumptuous Autumn Leaves. Discover the
Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, stories behind the paintings on this tour.
Laurence Stephen Lowry (1887–1976)
became Britain’s most famous and
best-loved 20th century painter, whose
works sell for millions.
FOOTBALL HISTORY ALIVE!
FOOTBALL BABYLON MATT BUSBY
Bungs, Booze, Brawls, Balotelli The Man Who Made Manchester united
FOOTBALL PUB WALK THE STORY OF
MANCHESTER UNITED
GEORGE BEST’S MANCHESTER The perfect tours for after-work bonding
The Good, the Bad and the Bubbly
THE 1996 IRA BOMB IRISH MANCHESTER
The city blasted but not beaten. And if you Best, Behan, Mick Collins, Dublin Phil,
thought that pillar box is the one that Eamon de Valera, home rule, the
survived the bomb... 15 June 1996 revisited Manchester Martyrs and a whiff of
the Waxie’s Dargle.
CORONATION STREET LOCATIONS During the Irish Festival
An all-day excursion into deepest
Weatherfield by tram (not the one that JEWISH MANCHESTER
fell into the bistro). Tour led by legendary Two walks chosen for the chosen people,
guide Willie Eckerslike looking for traces of the old Jewish Ghetto,
including synagogues that are now
FORMIDABLE WOMEN OF (non-kosher) shops and the bacon-curing
MANCHESTER factory alongside Torah Street (yes, really).
Deeds, not Words
From the tarot-obsessed tea heiress to the ROMAN MANCHESTER
A City United
Lord Mayor that solved the rubik’s cube, via They came, they saw, they conquered.
all those Pankhursts, the leader of the Jarrow They brought us the clever notion of reading
marchers, and the writer who dissed Dickens. and writing, a new religion (worship of the
Regular tours, mostly weekday evenings God Mithras), straight roads and lasagne.
And we can now see the only authentic
GANGLAND MANCHESTER Roman remains!
“You’re nicked, sunshine” Beware the Ides of March and all those
In the sun-starved shadows and cold corners other months
where the streets have no names and angels
fear to tread there is another Manchester, SLAVERY
a grim, grey, gritty city where the long arm 12 years a slave? 120 years a slavery-
of the law doesn’t always reach. supporting city... until a social conscience
took over. Hull gets all the credit, but
HIDDEN GEMS OF MANCHESTER Manchester had the biggest section of
Jewels in the Crown the petition that went to Parliament to
You never knew there were there such abolish slavery.
treasures to behold. On October International Anti-Slavery Day
Regular midweek tours
SOUTHERN CEMETERY
THE HISTORY OF MANCHESTER One of Europe’s largest cemeteries is the
IN 20 OBJECTS final resting place of L. S. Lowry, Matt
From the so-called “Berlin Wall” to the Busby, Tony Wilson, John Rylands and the
wrongly-called “IRA” pillar box. forgotten victim of the Munich Air Disaster.
Monthly tours
LITERARY MANCHESTER and beyond PLACES
Tours covering every aspect of the city’s literary history, ANCOATS KNUTSFORD
The world’s first industrial suburb, a factory It’s classy Cranford in Chi-Chi Cheshire.
featuring the Brontes, Anthony Burgess, Lord Byron, hoot from the city centre, was home to some It’s the home town of Mrs Gaskell. It’s
De Quincey, Dickens, Gaskell, Ted Hughes, Shakespeare, of the world’s oldest mechanised mills, now Tatton, General Patton and the maddest
modern workshops, smart apartments and architecture in the North-West.
Shelley and Howard Spring. beard-friendly bars.
Regular tours, including magical night LIVERPOOL
Especially during October, the month of the Manchester Literature Festival
time strolls We have created a series of unique and
ingenious tours that go beyond John, Paul,
CHARLES DICKENS’S MANCHESTER ELIZABETH GASKELL’S MANCHESTER ANGEL MEADOW George and Ringo. You’ll never walk alone.
Hard Times She wrote the first great Manchester novel, The seediest and slummiest 19th century
2020 marks the 150th anniversary of the Mary Barton, using a bizarre pseudonym Manchester rookery, infested with cholera NORTHERN QUARTER
great author’s death. Look out for our and then fled to London. Tour includes visit and criminals, described by Friedrich Engels Streets named in Mediterranean tiles,
events in Manchester and London. to her restored house. as “hell on earth”. Nice. pavements slabbed in mosaic, cult markets
Monthly tours and cardamom-scented curry cafes. Boho
TED HUGHES COUNTRY WILD, WINDY AND Manchester, cool Manchester, modish
We recall the elemental, visceral verse WUTHERING HAWORTH CASTLEFIELD Manchester. It’s old Manchester renewed
of late 20th century poet laureate at his Relive the terror and torment of Wuthering The Roman birthplace of Manchester and modish Manchester refreshed. It’s
Yorkshire haunts. Heights amid the melancholy of the became a centre of new industry in good, it’s modern.
Brontes’ lives. the 18th century and has now been
spectacularly revived. SALFORD
Dirty old town to some or the “real North”
DIDSBURY to others, the Crescent City is packed with
MUSIC It’s Posh Down South stories of rogues and rough diamonds,
Manchester’s most sumptuous suburb religious zealots, reformers, radicals and
hides many a tantalising tale. revolutionaries.
Manchester is the city that gave the world some of its
greatest groups: The Fall, New Order, The Smiths, Buzzcocks,
Joy Division, Happy Mondays, Oasis... POLITICS
IAN CURTIS’S MANCHESTER MARK E. SMITH’S MANCHESTER
There’s left wing. There’s right wing. There’s New
JOHN COOPER CLARKE THE SMITHS Manchester Walks’s political tours. Our inside tours of
The Beat and Bard of Salford From the Moors Murders to Meat Is Murder
the People’s History Museum bring hundreds of years
MANCHESTER IN 12 SONGS We host regular music tours covering every of history alive.
From “Bus Stop” to “God’s Cop” aspect of the city’s amplified heritage –
and we play the sounds at carefully chosen
MARX & ENGELS IN MANCHESTER PETERLOO MASSACRE
MANCHESTER MUSIC: locations
By day they were Victorian gentlemen with 16 August 1819: some 60,000 local people
THE HACIENDA YEARS
sedentary lifestyles and smart boots. By were attacked by the military at a political
night they were rabid radicals roaming the demonstration. Within minutes a dozen
streets with revolutionary fervour. Follow in were dead and hundreds injured. We host a
Marx’s and Engels’ footsteps through the series of walks covering every aspect of one
same hell-holes and high-spots. of the defining moments of English history.
PANKHURSTS/SUFFRAGETTE CITY
Time magazine named Emmeline
Pankhurst, the Moss Side-born Suffragette
leader, as one of the 100 Most Important
People of the 20th century. Walk in her
Manchester footsteps.
PUB WALKS WATER
THE INTELLECTUAL PUB CRAWL CANAL CRUISE IN SEARCH OF THE
Ever fancied having a pint while discussing Take to the water as we cruise from MANCHESTER SHIP CANAL
Wittgenstein’s principles of psychologism? Castlefield along the Bridgewater Canal,
No, nor do we. Your round. through Pomona Lock into the Manchester LOST RIVERS OF
Ship Canal and up to the Quays. MANCHESTER
LITERARY MANCHESTER PUB TOUR Private bookings for groups only
It was the best of pints, it was the worst of MAPPING THE MEDLOCK
pints. So begins Charles Dickens’s classic GRAND CANALS OF MANCHESTER The River that Manchester Forgot
drinking novel, An Ale of Two Cities. Towpaths and Tunnels, Capstans
and Cuttings SALFORD QUAYS
MARX & ENGELS PUB WALK Through the old industrial heartlands Huge docks which once harboured the
What ever happened to Leon Trotsky? Well (east) to Sportcity and its state of the art world’s ocean-going liners. Gleaming
he never came to Manchester, but Marx stadiums or west to radically regenerated museums of the modern age. A world
and Engels did, and boy did they like a drop. Castlefield on our tours of towpath tales famous canal, as deep as Suez, as powerful
and lockside lore. as the Panama. Here a new city – Media
OLD SALFORD’S SPIT AND City – has risen, a city of glass, steel and
SAWDUST PUBS burnished metal, bold and brilliant.
Quick, get the beers in before the
Media City types turn up!
SCIENCE & INDUSTRY WEIRD & WONDERFUL
Manchester was the world’s first industrial city. (Keep quiet, CHILLING TALES FROM THE
MANCHESTER GRAVEYARDS
Birmingham). It was also where atomic theory was devised, Tragic deaths, accidental deaths, hoax
the atom first split, the computer invented and graphene deaths, bloody deaths, death by shooting,
murders, assassinations, instant death,
isolated. Discover the appliance of science on tours featuring unexplained deaths, slow tortuous death,
Alan Turing, John Dalton and the atom bomb (not literally). decapitations and hangings. Watch out for
the graverobbers!
ALAN TURING COTTON: THE CLOTH THAT
HELL IS A CITY
He broke the Nazis’ Enigma code, almost CUT MANCHESTER
Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Ripper,
invented the computer, and was persecuted It grows in the American Deep South, was
Hangman Pierrepoint & some really bad folk.
to a painful suicide by the ungrateful authorities. shipped to the North-West and spun in
A tortured genius and modern martyr. the mills before being packed and pressed,
HITLER’S PLANS FOR MANCHESTER
Regular weekend tours shown off in palatial warehouses and
Swastika banners on the Town Hall,
turned into clothes to dress the world.
jackbooted thugs “cleaning” the streets,
Cotton’s legacy can be found across
SSGB – it nearly happened.
Manchester, from the Town Hall, topped by
a golden cotton boll, to the Royal Exchange
STRANGEWAYS NO ESCAPE!
where cotton merchants traded in the
No Escape!
world’s biggest room.
The dodgy prison, the edgy streets.
THE WORLD’S FIRST RAILWAY
UNDERGROUND MANCHESTER –
Adventures on the Wheels of Steel
DON’T MENTION THE WAR
15 September 1830: thousands gather at
Manchester about to be Blitzed, invasion
the edge of Manchester for the arrival of
imminent... let’s take refuge in an air-raid
the iron horse bearing the prime minister
shelter and when we come up the Yanks
and the president of the board of trade.
will have brought us oranges and chocolate.
What could go wrong? Everything.
DID YOU KNOW?
Rolls and Royce never met at the Midland Hotel. Everyone
thought they did until Ed Glinert, Manchester’s most
energetic historian, did some basic research.
The three stripes on the city’s coat of arms are nothing to
do with three rivers.
Thought the pillar box on Corporation Street was the one
that survived the IRA bomb? It isn’t.
Thought the council built a shelter to shield the public from
atomic bombs? No. It was only for VIPs.
Did you know Manchester was close to being the setting for
only the second assassination of a British prime minister?
Did you know The Smiths were named after the people
who shopped the Moors Murderers to the police?
Thought the Midland Hotel was free of Russian secret
service bugs? Huh.
Thought L. S. Lowry was a kindly avuncular old gent?
Not quite.
Did you know the army bomb disposal team was only
two seconds away from diffusing the 1996 IRA bomb?
MANCHESTER IS MUSIC CITY –
10 REASONS WHY
10cc – I’m Mandy, Fly Me
Buzzcocks – Love You More
The Distractions –
Time Goes By So Slow
Elbow – The Birds
The Fall – Ludd Gang
Happy Mondays – Bob’s Yer Uncle
Joy Division – Interzone
New Order – Fine Time
Oasis – Morning Glory
The Smiths – Half a Person Peter Saville’s
ingenious cover for
Find out more on our music walks. New Order’s Fine Time
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