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7pm – 8pm
2pm – 4pm
Domestic Duties on Lark Hill Place
Something’s in the Water! How canals, rivers and rain shaped Manchester
£2 Booking essential at http:// bit.ly/1Rdehot or 0161 778 0800 Explore the lives of the Victorian domestic servants who lived in Lark Hill Place, Salford Museum’s recreated street. Learn about the types of jobs you could have done up at ‘The Big House’ as well as the domestic tasks in your cottage. Starting Point: Salford Museum & Art Gallery, The Crescent M5 4WU
THURSDAY 9 JUNE 2pm – 3.45pm
10 Manchester Inventions that Shook the World £8 pay on the day
Learn about Manchester’s past, present and future on this running tour of the city centre. Be active, meet different people and find out some new facts. Runs are about 4 – 5 miles.
Starting Point: Confirmed on booking Morag Rose, Loiterers Resistance Movement
FRIDAY 10 JUNE
Godlee Observatory Tour
This half-day guided walk around the city looks at the archaeology of Manchester’s origins. Starting and ending in Castlefield, there will be visits to a Roman fort, a medieval church, the Georgian Northern Quarter, the Rochdale Canal and more.
£5 Call 0161 306 4977 for postal payment details
Starting Point: Roman Gateway, Liverpool Road M3 4JN
Starting Point: Godlee Observatory, Sackville Building, Granby Row M1 3BU
Manchestour: a running tour of Manchester
From lost rivers, fantastic bridges and devastating floods to industry, tourism and wildlife we will be sharing stories of Manchester’s waterways, and discussing the city’s complicated relationship with water. Oh and don’t go too near the edge...
Starting Point: Outside the Museum of Science & Industry, Lower Byrom Street M3 4FP
Step back in time in one of Manchester’s marvellous hidden gems at Godlee Observatory. Tour the telescope and find out about the histories of Manchester Astronomical Society.
8am
FREE but booking essential at http://manchestour.co.uk
10am – 2pm
2pm – 4.30pm
SATURDAY 11 JUNE
FREE but booking essential at http://bit.ly/1px8247
Manchester invented the modern world, for this was the first city of the Industrial Revolution, and its inhabitants have given the world some of its greatest creations: the first computer, atomic theory, the first canal.
Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks
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Walking Through Manchester’s Origins FREE but booking essential by email m.d.nevell@salford.ac.uk or 0161 295 6286
Michael Nevell, University of Salford
11am – 12.30pm
Victorian Slums & Squalor: Angel Meadow £8 + £1 booking fee Booking essential at www.angel-meadow-walk. eventbrite.com Angel Meadow and the Irk Valley were infamous in Victorian times – cholera, crime, vice, vermin and death were an everyday occurrence. Visit many histories on this walk including locations that L.S. Lowry painted and narrow streets once known as Irish Town. Starting Point: Under the tiled map at Victoria Station M3 1WY
Starting point: The Albert Monument, Albert Square M2 5DB 11am or 2pm
The Portico Library Tour £5 Booking essential at http://bit.ly/PorticoMHF Enjoy a tour of the remarkable Portico Library, which opened as a library in 1806, where members have included John Dalton, Guy Garvey, Elizabeth Gaskell and Val McDermid.
FREE
up to the Museum of Transport and back into Manchester. Last bus back to the Town Hall at 4.30pm.
Enjoy the MHF Celebration Day with a 30 minute heritage bus ride
Starting Point: Manchester Town Hall, Albert Square M2 5DB
11am & hourly until 4pm
Heritage Bus Rides
1pm – 4pm
Elizabeth Sibbering, Manchester Guided Tours
Gentry Families of Manchester: The North
2pm – 3.45pm
£15 Booking at www.mgt.eventbrite.co.uk
Jewish Manchester £8 pay on the day Discover this fascinating journey of Manchester’s Jewish population, the largest in Britain outside of London. It all began with the arrival of penniless German hawkers in 18th century Manchester to be part of the Industrial Revolution. Starting Point: Outside The Midland Hotel, Peter Street M60 2DS Ed Glinert, New Manchester Walks
This bus tour takes you to see the remains of some of northern Greater Manchester’s heritage and covers the stories of the families that lived there, including Heaton Hall, Hopwood and Tonge Hall in Middleton, and Foxdention Hall in Chadderton. Starting Point: In front of Slug & Lettue, Albert Square M2 5HD Emma Fox, Manchester Guided Tours & Jonathan Spangler, Manchester Metropolitan University 29
