PUBLIC WALKS from MANCUNIAN TOURS
Manchester's Marvellous Markets
Everyone loves a market and Manchester loves its markets.
Meet the Producers, try their products and enjoy their stories.
There’s Food & Fashion, as well as Flower & Craft Markets.
We’ll visit any visiting Specialist Markets too!
You can buy some great farm-fresh food or that fabulous bracelet or T-shirt.
Inspired gifts for all those special occasions
We'll also visit Manchester's brilliant Craft & Design Centre in the Northern Quarter.
There’s time to browse and time to shop – that’s what markets are all about.
You will also hear the stories from the earliest days of markets in Manchester. Pigs pelted with acorns and ice cream served with a dose of typhoid!
Walk starts at the Visitor Information Centre, 1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES 2017
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Marx, Engels and their Manchester Connections
They changed the history of the world. The conditions they found in Manchester shocked and outraged them. Something had to be done. Engels lived and worked in Manchester for over twenty years. Marx visited often. What influenced their thinking? See the library where they studied. Hear the stories of their friends, colleagues and acquaintances. See how the areas of deprivation and depravity have been transformed into today’s ultra-modern Manchester.
Engels: Where did he work? Where did he play? Who did he know? The latest biography by Tristram Hunt calls him “The frock-coated Communist” – why? What was Manchester really like in his day? .
Marx: devoted his life to writing & research, he had no full-time job and an ever-expanding family. How did he survive?
There’s fun as well as philosophy. Gossip as well as hard graft in this tour of our City that has startlingly relevant echoes for today’s emerging industrial economies.
Start at the Visitor Information Centre 1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES
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Let's Eat the Northern Quarter /
Chinatown Wok 'n Stroll
This is Manchester’s Funky Town, packed with independent businesses selling everything from the latest fashions to those hard to find vinyl records. There’s Street Art galore, arts, crafts and markets. There are hotels, restaurants, bars and cafes specialising in Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Middle Eastern, Brazilian and English Food (and many more).
This tour shows where you can feast on these cuisines 365 days of the year, right here in the beating heart of Manchester.
Uncover the hidden charms of the “rice and three” Curry Houses in Manchester’s trendy Northern Quarter (you might even sample quail or venison curry!) Historic buildings housing the latest “be seen in” places. We’ll see them all. Get some stunning ideas for some great nights out.
Start at the Visitor Information Centre 1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES
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Cotton Tales
Manchester was “Cottonopolis”. What does that mean?
Learn how Manchester ruled the world in creating and trading all things cotton. Why were we the “shock city” of the world?
Discover the heroes and villains, the wealth and the poverty that created the world’s first great industrial city. We’ve got a history to be proud of (well, most of it) – find out about it and see the cotton symbols that still adorn our City’s streets.
This entertaining stroll with one of Manchester’s Green Badge Tourist Guides gives you a fascinating insight into the birth of modern Manchester, the men and women who made it. and the Political movements it spawned.
Start at the Visitor Information Centre1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES
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Shock City to Eco City
“Manchester was at the heart of the Industrial Revolution which boosted fossil fuel use and kick-started Climate change.”
Our ECO TOURS of the City are a small step in redressing the balance.
Learn about Manchester’s past as the “Shock City” of the Industrial revolution.
The exponential explosion in the City’s population, the cotton industry, steam power, engineering, overcrowded housing. The realisation that things had to change – the Clean Air acts, the de-population of the City Centre, the moves to a cleaner, greener environment. See the country’s largest solar panel on the home of the City’s largest company (the Co-operative).
This one hour walk will leave only a miniscule
carbon footprint.
Meet at the Tourist Information Centre1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES
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Shhh! Manchester's Fab Four Libraries
There are FOUR Great Libraries in Manchester City Centre.
This tour takes us to each of these marvellous and totally different buildings
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Manchester’s Central Library is a fabulous treasure trove of Local History and archives including a fantastic digital photo archive. As well as the books there is a Theatre here too! All housed in a building based on the Parthenon.
The Portico a private members library in constant use since 1806. Designed in the Classical style by Thomas Harrison. The list of past members is a Who’s Who of Manchester life. Elizabeth Gaskell, John Dalton and even Thomas de Quincey - author of “The Confessions of an English Opium Eater“ – a Manchester man
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Next we go to Manchester’s “Taj Mahal” – a library built in 1900 out of love and respect for John Rylands by his wife Enriqueta. Now part of the University of Manchester, the John Rylands library contains the world’s oldest fragment of the New Testament and many first editions including Shakespeare’s sonnets and a copy of the “Wicked Bible”.
Finally see where Marx & Engels researched their Communist manifesto and John Dee practiced his Alchemy in Manchester’s Medieval Chetham’s Library
Meet at Central Library, St Peter's Square M2 5PD
TOUR DATES
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07818 453969 07853181299
MANCHESTER CITY of FOOTBALL
Red or Blue there are tales for you on this tour of the City's Football related sites, including where the League began. Tour ends at the National Football Museum
Meet at Visitor Information Centre, 1 Piccadilly Gardens, M1 1RG
TOUR DATES
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