Manchester Tour Guide - Sibby

02/03/2024

Well worth a visit, the stained glass is wonderful!

02/03/2024

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01/03/2024

Thank you to JLife Magazine for writing about the 150th anniversary of our Spanish & Portuguese synagogue this year! 🎉

We can't wait for our Museum Open Day in May, when we'll be celebrating 150 years of people coming together on our site. We'll be sharing more details about this soon! For now, if you'd like to read more about our anniversary, head to: https://www.manchesterjewishmuseum.com/season/150th-anniversary/

27/02/2024

Nine Women Reveal The Dangers Of Working In A Munitions Factory

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/9-women-reveal-the-dangers-of-working-in-a-first-world-war-munitions-factory #:~:text=Thousands%20of%20women%20volunteered%20as,hours%20in%20often%20hazardous%20conditions

22/03/2023

Meet the 10 Tourism Superstar 2023 finalists as we celebrate the staycation heroes who've gone that extra mile - and you can cast your vote for who you think deserves to win

22/05/2021

Never forget 🐝 the 22, their loved ones and all others affected on that terrible days four years ago.

06/04/2021

This Thursday, a free online talk about Victoria Baths. Donations welcome - pay what you feel.

What was this handsome young man and his trumpet up to in a swimming pool? Our next talk this week is ‘Bowls & Big Bands’. A lot of things happened at VB that didn't involve swimming, so join us on Thursday at 7pm to find out more! 🎺
Tickets available here: https://talk-bowlsbands.eventbrite.com

25/03/2021

Free online talk tonight from Victoria Baths – it’s excellent and well worth watching (I’ve just had a sneaky peak!).
It’s ‘Pay What You Feel” as a donation.
📆 Thursday 25th March
🕖 7pm
🎟️ Book via Eventbrite

An online talk centred on the Superintendent’s Flat above Victoria Baths and the families who lived there

16/08/2020

TODAY visit the locations of the Massacre, on the 201st anniversary and at the time it happened. Start time is 1pm.
www.peterloo-walk.eventbrite.com
(Photo is last year - max group size today is 12)

12/08/2020

Join me this Sunday to visit the locations of the Peterloo Massacre on the 201st anniversary. A dark day in Manchester’s history when at least 15 people died and over 600 were injured.

Revisit the locations and events of the Peterloo Massacre with an entertaining, qualified tour guide.

07/08/2020

Great to start guiding again today since the March lockdown, around . Here are my lovely guests at the Moodswings 2019 RHS - Royal Horticultural Society Tatton Park show garden. Check Friends of Angel Meadow for fantastic info about the area.

06/08/2020

Check out this 1931 painting by Albert Vincent Reade (1864 - 1940) ’Ancoats Mill, Manchester’.

My next Ancoats walk is in September - tickets here www.ancoatswalk.eventbrite.com

05/08/2020

My first guided walk since March! Join me around Angel Meadow this Friday 7th August at 11:30. Group size is limited to 12, and tickets must be purchased in advance. I’ll wear a visor and guests will be asked to keep at least a metre away from people not in their household, and to consider wearing a face covering.

'Angel Meadow - Victorian Slums & Squalor' Guided Walking Tour

27/03/2020

Fantastic news!

21/03/2020

Regretfully, all of my guided walks are cancelled until further notice. I’ll deal with bookings in the next few days.

Stay safe everyone and I’ll hopefully see you once we can restart.

Our official daily 11am Discover Manchester walk and all public calendar walks are cancelled with immediate effect, until further notice.

Anyone who has a booking will hear from us soon. We’re all self-employed so, as for many others, this is a tough time for us financially.

We’ll definitely be guiding again, in and around Manchester, as soon as it’s safe.

17/03/2020

**UPDATE** I probably guided my last walk for quite a while yesterday, all walks are cancelled until further notice.

09/03/2020

Separate the myths from the facts before you cancel those plans.

05/03/2020

Great film!

27/02/2020

Date for your diary.

This is the official poster for the 2020 procession on 5th July.
On 6th March, we have a fundraising event to keep this procession going.
The procession costs us £7,500 per year.
If you would like to keep this procession going, we need your support!
We have great entertainment and prizes to be won.
Once again, please support us.

Please contact us for tickets to the fundraiser.

21/02/2020

Hot off the press!!

21/02/2020

Happy International Day for Tourist Guiding.

10/02/2020

Available from early March...

Look out for our Summer 2020 leaflet – it’s the 20th one, currently in production by PDC Manchester.

04/01/2020

Join me at 1pm tomorrow for a walk around the locations of the Peterloo Massacre. Pay on the day or buy tickets here:
www.peterloo-walk.eventbrite.com

All this week on Granada Reports, we're marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo massacre. At least 18 people were killed when forces charged on a peaceful protest in St Peter's Fields in Manchester on the 16th of August 1819. In our first report, Political Correspondent Hannah Miller went on a...

03/11/2019

A guided walk around Castlefield anyone? Join me today, Sunday 3rd November at 1pm.
www.castlefield-walk.eventbrite.com

03/10/2019

Oswald Dixon was the oldest resident at Broughton House care home for veterans in Salford

18/08/2019

Hugh Hornby Birley is still buried in the church crypt underneath the cross in St Peter’s Square.

16/08/2019

Here’s video of the naming of the dead ceremony, on the 200th Anniversary, timed to coincide with the start of the Massacre.

The names of the people who died as a result of the Peterloo Massacre in 1819 were read to mark the 200th anniversary of the tragedy in Manchester. ...

16/08/2019

Very honoured today to have read the name of Margaret Downes, at the commemoration ceremony.

16/08/2019

commemorative medal. ‘The Magistrates and Yeomanry of Manchester... God confound them’. There’s another version which says ‘The wicked have drawn out the sword. They have cut down the poor and needy…’

16/08/2019

Women were twice more likely to be injured than men at the . They wore white signifying purity and virtue. This meant they were easily targeted for attack by the Yeomanry, soldiers and special constables.