Secret Manchester: The City Uncovered on an Expert Tour

Schedule

Wed Sep 14 2022 at 05:30 pm to 07:15 pm

Location

Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel | Manchester, EN

Meet Ed Glinert, Manchester's leading historian, outside the Mercure Hotel for a tour of the secret city.
About this Event

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

* 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 voted to demolish the Town Hall?

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

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!

Where is it happening?

Mercure Manchester Piccadilly Hotel, Portland Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
Tickets

GBP 10.50 to GBP 16.00

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