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Entertaining, enlightening and historical walks & tours around Manchester including the Town Hall, canal cruises, pub walks, football, art, culture...

08/11/2024

Manchester's only architecture walking tour, and it's delivered by Riba judge Ed Glinert.
11am, this Saturday from the Midland Hotel.

05/11/2024

Very pleased today to be taking two nice ladies from an American radio station around Manchester sites associated with Marx and Engels.
Next public tour of same on Engels' birthday - 28 November.

05/11/2024

Fireworks going off all over Manchester right now. It never ceases to amaze me how, out of all the days in the calendar, Guy Fawkes happened to choose Bonfire Night to try and blow up the House of Commons.

05/11/2024

Reminder, folks, that Elizabeth Gaskell's Manchester has been rescheduled for tomorrow, Wed 6 Nov, 11am. Meet outside St Ann's Church

04/11/2024

This from the BBC:
"Ten reasons why either Trump or Harris might win".
Unbelievable nonsense. There is only one reason why either Trump or Harris might win: only they are standing!!

03/11/2024

Hello everyone. This idea touted here that there is a variety of sources about Manchester history online and in books, therefore no one learns anything different on my tours, is a non-starter.

Nearly every website and book on Manchester is wrong about the most basic facts.
This is because lazy writers have copied other lazy writers without doing the most basic research.

I'll give you a tiny example.

Every book on the Town Hall and every Town Hall tour guide, except those working for New Manchester Walks, will tell you that the statue of the Grelley, lord of the Manchester manor, on the outside of the building is of Thomas Grelley, even though he didn't do anything interesting. I was always sceptical given that Robert Grelley was one of the barons who forced King John to sign the Magna Carta.
I told the history professors at MMU that it was indeed Robert. They laughed and asked why I was so certain.
I explained that it bloody well says "Robert" on the front!! A pair of binoculars sorted this. Basic research.
The only way to discover accurate Manchester history told in an engaging way is on a New Manchester Walks tour.
The only reliable guides are me, John Alker and Gareth from Si Manchester.

02/11/2024

Kim Law won't let me respond to her so I'll post this anyway. She says she met me on a canal walk years ago. Okay.

Kim, I can't think what I could have possibly done for you to be so full of hate. I have taken thousands of people on those canal walks and they have all thoroughly enjoyed it, laughed at the jokes, taken in the knowledge, and tipped generously. maybe one or two people on a tour of 40 people aren't satisfied. I am sorry if I offended you in some way but I can't see how. I don't go around offending people.

02/11/2024

The other day people on this website, including those I trusted to do the right thing, like Brian Robertson, were condemning me for mentioning Israel - "what has Israel got to do with the walks?"

Today your answer.

Vandals claiming to be supporting so-called "Palestine" have broken into Manchester University's chemistry lab, smashing cabinets and stealing busts of the great scientist, Chaim Weizmann, a Manchester-based scientist who single-handedly solved the UK's explosives problem during the Great War.

This weekend marks the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration which gave us Jews a homeland. Lord Balfour was a Manchester MP. The Balfour Declaration and Britain's involvement was of great benefit to the local Arabs in Palestine/The Levant/The Holy Land because it ended Ottoman rule and brought progressive people to the area to build a democratic Western-styled system to a lawless area with everyone having equal rights and religious tolerance - which is what these Palestinian thugs hate. They want anarchy, genocide of Jews, women covered up, homosexuals killed.
Is that what Manchester people want?
Support Israel for a safer world!

01/11/2024

In the midst of much criticism about what am I allowed to write on this page, we have two eye-opening, expert, entertaining, enlightening tours tomorrow, Saturday 2 Nov.
Needless to say, these are the only such tours where you will get stories you will love to hear that nobody else will tell you.
* 11am, Secrets of Ancoats (Band on the Wall).
* 2pm, Angel Meadow: Victorian Hell-Hole (Victoria Station wallmap).

31/10/2024

The New Statesman, like the Guardian, is a publication obsessed with ridiculing Jews. This recent edition had a selection of letters of the predictable variety ... " I love Jews...I am a Jew...but what they're doing to the Palestinians is...[fill in yourself].
A Vera Lustig of Walton-on-Thames, supposedly Jewish, claimed that 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes when Israel was established in 1948.
Absolutely crap. Not one Arab (not Palestinian) was expelled. The government changed from the British mandate to Israel, at which point Arab warlords told Arabs to leave and join them in a huge army to drive the Jews out. They lost. They will continue losing.

30/10/2024

Just reading Bob Scott's history of the Royal Exchange. Scott, if you remember, was the guy behind two amateurish bids to get Manchester as hosts for the Olympics. Still a great idea but there isn't the initiative here now sadly.
Anyway, on Page 1, Scott, writing in 1976, tells us that there are only three buildings in the city centre left from an arbitrary year he cites, 1724, the year the Exchange was founded. His three are:
* The "shell" of the Cathedral.
* St Ann's Church.
* The Old Wellington.
No mention of Chetham's!!
No wonder his Olympics bids failed!

17/10/2024

Tomorrow, Fri 18 October

Manchester's only "anti-Slavery tour".

The whole story...how Manchester launched the campaign to end the system...why there's a slave ship on the city coat of arms...

11am, Victoria Station wallmap.

15/10/2024

Every 18th of October the world celebrates International Anti- Day.

And every year, New Manchester Walks marks the occasion by hosting a unique "Manchester and Slavery" tour.

This is most fitting given that Manchester led Britain's campaign against the iniquitous system.

On the tour, guide Ed Glinert explains why the coat of arms features a slave ship, contradicting the Guardian's badly-researched story that it isn't.

The tour starts at Victoria Station wallmap at 11am. Booking on Eventbrite.

14/10/2024

Thanks everyone for bearing with me, today, unable to do Dickens owing to lack of audible voice. Many apologies once again to anyone who missed the cancellation.
I've rearranged the tour for Friday 8 November, 1pm, outside the Mercure Hotel.

11/10/2024

Manchester Literature week!
Starting Monday the 14th of October.
Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, Penguin author, a Penguin Classics editor, Arts Society lecturer, cruises ships speaker, who has completed more than 5,500 Manchester tours, on a trio of fascinating, eye-opening literary tours set in Manchester during this autumn 2024’s Literature Festival.

* Charles Dickens in Manchester – The making of Hard Times, the talks at the Free Trade Hall, the visits to sister F***y in Ardwick, the opening of the first Manchester library.
Monday 14 October, 1pm, outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street.

* Anthony Burgess’ Manchester – Early years as John Wilson, schooling at Xaverian, literary breakthrough, hysterical descriptions of Manchester.
Tuesday 15 October, 1pm, outside St Ann’s Church.

* Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester – Mary Barton: A Tale of Manchester Life, Cotton Mather Mills, works for Dickens, unable to join the Portico Library...
Wednesday 16 October, 11am, outside St Ann’s Church.

23/09/2024

Anyone got 2 spare tickets for REM By Stipe at the Lions' Den on Sat 19 Oct?

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This is Ed talking about the Emmeline Pankhurst statue in #Manchester - The next Pankhursts tour is on the 9th July at 11am and it's FREE - yes you read that right, it's FREE, BUT we still need you to book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/367866206727

New Manchester Walks - Free Trade Hall

4 June: this day the Sex Pistols played the Lesser Free Trade Hall and invented modern Manchester music. Tour led by Mojo's Ed Glinert. To find out more, you can book on the tour via eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/free-manchester-music-tours-the-day-the-pistols-played-the-lesser-fth-tickets-336045891307

The Suffragettes, the greatest political campaigners in British history...their story in Manchester, their spiritual home, told here. The Pankhursts of Manchester is a FREE Royal Bank Holiday tour, BUT we do need you to book, so please book with eventbrite here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-pankhursts-of-manchester-free-royal-bank-holiday-tour-tickets-338276513157