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Radical Walking Tour of Manchester
Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom
$34.28
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Overview
Discover Manchester’s revolutionary history on a 2-hour walking tour that reveals the city’s role as a hub of radical activity. This engaging tour takes you through the heart of Manchester, known for its football and music, while exploring tales of resistance and the working-class spirit. Meet at the iconic Manchester Cathedral and delve into the stories of those who shaped the city’s identity. Ideal for students and history enthusiasts, this tour operates daily at 10:30 AM and 2 PM, providing a unique perspective on Manchester’s past.
- 2-hour guided walking tour focusing on Manchester's radical history
- Explore significant sites related to the Industrial Revolution
- Meet at Manchester Cathedral for an immersive experience
- Available daily with special rates for students and concessions
- 2-hour guided walking tour focusing on Manchester's radical history
- Explore significant sites related to the Industrial Revolution
- Meet at Manchester Cathedral for an immersive experience
- Available daily with special rates for students and concessions
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The experience offers several options. This price includes:
Spanish
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours
The experience offers several options, check yours above
- Expert Historian Guide
- Gratuities
Meeting point
Meet by the Lady Chapel entrance on Cathedral street, next to the Love Bee. Your guide will be wearing a Rebel Tours badge.
Return details
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Manchester CathedralManchester Cathedral, once dominated by the city’s elites, discover how this medieval church sat at the heart of a rapidly industrialising town where wealth, power and poverty collided.
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Chetham's LibraryStep inside Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in the country, where Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels studied Manchester’s slums and began shaping ideas that would fuel revolutionary movements.
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Corn Exchange ManchesterVisit the Corn Exchange, once a bustling hub for grain traders and fiery Anti–Corn Law League meetings, and learn how struggles over food prices, free trade and working‑class survival shaped Victorian Manchester before the building’s reinvention as today’s dining arcade.
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Royal Exchange TheatreAdmire the Royal Exchange, a grand Victorian symbol of Manchester's commercial might, and uncover its radical underbelly where merchants debated free trade radicals rallied against exploitation in the world's first industrial city.
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Manchester ArndaleExplore the Arndale Centre, Europe’s largest shopping mall when opened in 1972, and uncover displaced communities, gentrification and the devastating 1996 IRA bombing that tested Manchester’s resilience and led to its regeneration.
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Piccadilly GardensPiccadilly Gardens, a bustling city-centre public space reborn from clay pits and a former Royal Infirmary site.
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Manchester Art GalleryVisit Manchester Art Gallery, born from the elite Royal Manchester Institution in 1823 and later a flashpoint for suffragettes who damaged artwork in 1913 to demand votes for women.
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Sackville GardensReflect in Sackville Gardens, a serene city oasis created in 1900 amid industrial decay, now home to memorials for Alan Turing, trans lives and HIV/AIDS victims—stand where Manchester’s defiant queer community turned prejudice into Pride and progress.
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St Peter's SquareStand in St Peter’s Square, formerly St Peter’s Field and site of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre where 60,000 peaceful reformers demanding democratic rights were sabred by cavalry—killing 18 and injuring hundreds in a bloody clash that ignited the working class fight for representation ntation.
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Statue Of Emmeline PankhurstPause before the striking bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square—known as ‘Rise up, Women’ or ‘Our Emmeline’—and learn how this fearless Manchester-born leader ignited militant protests, hunger strikes and global campaigns that shattered barriers to women’s suffrage.
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If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met,
you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.
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Radical Walking Tour of Manchester
Manchester, North West England, England, United Kingdom
$34.28
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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We deliver the eVoucher or the Physical box to the recipient
03
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!