Secret Manchester: The Official Tour

Secret Manchester: The Official Tour

Think you know Manchester? Join THE expert, Ed Glinert, on this unique, eye-opening tour of the city's real history.

By New Manchester Walks

Date and time

Thu, 15 May 2025 18:00 - 19:45 GMT+1

Location

Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel

Portland Street Manchester M1 4PH United Kingdom

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour 45 minutes

The Secret History of Manchester

Thursday the 15th of May at 6pm.

Meet outside the Mercure Hotel, Portland Street.


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Some secrets

* Did you know there is an atomic bunker under Piccadilly Gardens and Chinatown with a branch leading to the Town Hall?

* That L. S. Lowry was a secret sadist.

* Did you know there were race riots in the city during the Second World War following the arrival of an invading army.

* Did you know that the pillar box on Corporation Street is NOT the one that survived the 1996 IRA bomb?

* Did you know the council once voted to demolish the Town Hall?

* Do you know how many secret service agents are in the Midland Hotel right now planting bugs and other dodgy devices?

Damn, you do now, but come on the tour anyway. It’s the Manchester that nobody knows...apart from Ed Glinert and you after you’ve been on this tour!

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New Manchester Walks

New Manchester Walks provides expert, enlightening and excitingly entertaining tours devised by Manchester's most energetic historian, Ed Glinert, author of Penguin Books' The Manchester Compendium, West End Chronicles, Literary London, John Alker and Lindsay Sutton.