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20th January 2015

Get a close-up, personalised tour of Manchester’s city centre

20th January 2015

Tour manchester in a black cab!

1st January 2015

The best… we are already talking about another trip to Manchester

Full disclosure here: having led museum tours for ten years, I’m not at all a fan of going on guided tours myself. And our visit to Manchester did not start off on a high note: our ride in from the airport was on a bus whose driver blasted heavy-metal music the entire trip, including, not […]

1st January 2015

“All the way from Perth Western Australia for a Manchester Taxi Tour”

We were planning a trip to the UK to visit family and as a fan of Coronation Street I decided that I couldn’t go all that way and not see where Coronation Street was filmed. After a lot of research it was clear to me that Manchester Taxi Tours was the way to go. I […]

31st December 2014

Manchester United – The Taxi Tour

Manchester is steeped in football history. From the formation of the first league in the world in 1888, to the home of the National Football Museum in 2012 The great city of Manchester boasts the best supported club in the world, with Manchester United, and the third richest club in the world with Manchester City […]

31st December 2014

See Old Trafford – The Home of Manchester United

Manchester united and Manchester City tours

30th December 2014

The Busby Babes tour

Talk to any Manchester United fan of a certain vintage, in fact talk to ANY football fan, about the Munich Air Disaster, and don’t be surprised if you are met with tears. The tragic events of the 6th February 1958 live long in the memory and are passed down from father to son. The players […]

29th December 2014

Around Manchester with L.S.Lowry

Lowry’s pictures, like Coronation Street, Blackpool Tower, and football teams City and United, have been part of my life as long as I can remember. They have always been there as prints hanging in the houses of my friends and families. Manchester and Salford supplied the backdrop to many of Lowry’s paintings but my favourites […]

29th December 2014

Heaton Park Manchester

Heaton Park situated in north Manchester is one of the largest municipal parks in Europe. Formerly the home of the Wilton family the park retains many of its original buildings with Heaton Hall (James Wyatt 1772 ) designed and built for Sir Thomas Egerton the 1st Earl of Wilton and described by Pevsner as ‘one […]