A Taste of Manchester - New Manchester Walks

Almost Coronation Street The Soap The Street

It’s Britain’s most famous TV street, home of the country’s best loved soap. It’s Coronation Street, land of cobbles, factories, terraced houses, the Kabin and Rovers Return. Come with us to the heart of Weatherfield, in and out of the haunts of the actors and characters who have made Coronation Street the street. It’s everything other than a trip down the street itself.

Dates: Mon 1 Feb, Sat 13 Feb, Mon 22 Feb

Old Manchester Medieval & Georgian

Here is a Manchester dripping with history: Europe’s oldest library and Britain’s widest cathedral; hidden rivers and timber-framed pubs; a Tudor manor house and sumptuous Georgian streets.

Dates: Fri 29 Jan, Tue 16 Feb

Manchester Uncovered The Heart of the City

This is essential Manchester, the bright lights and main sights – the magnificent Town Hall, historic Free Trade Hall, graceful St Ann’s Church and monumental Royal Exchange.

Dates: Fri 5 Feb, Tue 23 Feb

Manchester: 1st Industrial City

Rolls Royce made cars, Brindley dug canals and Stephenson built railways. Manchester is the city where modern industry began, where the world’s greatest machines and engines first whirred into action.

Dates: Sat 30 Jan, Mon 8 Feb

This Is Manchester The Walk The City

New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you have reached before? This is the ideal walk, for this is Manchester. It’s a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s a best of everything, taking in the old and the new, the ancient and the artful. It’s the perfect welcome or welcome back.

Dates: Fri 22 Jan, Tue 9 Feb, Fri 19 Feb, Sat 27 Feb

Manchester: 21st Century City The Birth of the Cool

Sleek and chic, bold and brassy, Manchester is the 21st century city, shaped in glass and steel at Beetham,  Bridgewater Hall, Urbis and Spinningfields. But it’s also bohemian in the Northern Quarter with its streets named in Mediterranean tiles, pavements slabbed in mosaic, cult markets, modish galleries and cardamom-scented curry cafes.

Dates: Tue 26 Jan, Fri 12 Feb, Sat 20 Feb

L S Lowry On Location

Spurned, snubbed and sniggered at, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter, whose works now go for millions. We explore the man behind the paintings, and take you through the central Manchester haunts he visited and depicted.

Dates: Mon 25 Jan, Sat 6 Feb, Mon 15 Feb

Eccentric Manchester The Weird & Wonderful

Why did thousands flee Market Street on Christmas Eve 1940? How did a white van end up on top of the Arndale in 1996? Manchester is a city of strange stories and tall tales.

Dates: Sat 23 Jan, Fri 26 Feb

The Manchester Nobody Knows

These are the lost and forgotten and corners of the great city, missed by the modern-day map-makers: Dalton Entry and Red Bank; the Assize Courts and real tennis court. Exchange Station. Come and see them before they go.

Dates: Tue 19 Jan, Tue 2 Feb