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Manchester Radicals and Revolutions Self Guided Walking Tour

By Tourific
Free cancellation available
Price is €6 per adult
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 3h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Multiple languages
Overview

This self-guided audio walking tour of Manchester traces a city that never accepted the way things were — from the Peterloo Massacre to the suffragettes, Alan Turing's storey to the IRA bomb that rebuilt the city centre. Across 20 stops, you'll hear what most tours skip: cotton workers who chose conscience over survival, a Cold War bunker beneath Chinatown, and a postbox that survived Britain's largest peacetime bomb. This tour connects two thousand years of radical history across one four-kilometre walk.

Set your own pace, start anytime, pause whenever you like. No group to keep up with, no fixed schedule. Over 500 travellers have taken this Manchester audio tour, and 20,000+ have used our self-guided tours worldwide.

If you'd rather explore on your own terms with richer stories than a rushed group tour allows, this is for you. Full refund guarantee — book with confidence.

Activity location
  • Piccadilly Gardens
    • Manchester, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
  • Queen Victoria's Statue
    • Piccadilly
    • M1 1LU, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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Manchester Radicals and Revolutions Self Guided Walking Tour in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 3 hours3h
    3h
  • Opening hours: Tue 08:00-19:30
  • English
Price details
€5.59 x 1 Adult€5.59
Total
Price is €5.59

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's included
    100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Audio and written guide included
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation
  • What's includedWhat's included
    1-year access on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like
  • What's includedWhat's included
    Check or search your inbox for an email from “Tourific” with tour access instructions.
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    In person guide
  • What's excludedWhat's excluded
    Audio device or headphones

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
  • The total tour duration includes the time spent at the stop and time required to walk through all the stops.
  • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.

Activity itinerary

Piccadilly Gardens
  • 15m
Stand among four Victorian statues and ask why the most controversial thing here is a concrete wall.
50 London Rd (Pass by)
Look up at the terracotta figures on a building that housed six public services behind one facade.
Alan Turing Memorial
  • 10m
Sit beside the man who shortened a war by two years, then was punished for who he loved.
The John Rylands Library
  • 10m
Visit the John Rylands Library, a stunning Victorian Gothic masterpiece that holds priceless literary treasures like the Gutenberg Bible and ancient manuscripts.
Manchester Cathedral (Pass by)
Visit the Manchester Cathedral and know more about its history and architecture.
Chinatown
  • 10m
Walk above four miles of tunnels hidden beneath a neighbourhood
Manchester Art Gallery (Pass by)
Stand where three women walked in with hammers and changed how suffragettes fought back.
Free Trade Hall (Pass by)
Step onto ground where a single heckled word became the most debated moment in rock history.
Town Hall (Pass by)
Spot the golden globe on the bell tower and work out what cotton and sunshine have in common.
The old Wellington (Pass by)
Visit the oldest building in Manchester and know more about its residents over the centuries.
Vimto Sculpture
  • 5m
Find the carved oak bottle marking where a temperance drink became a middle east obsession.
Peterloo Massacre Monument
  • 15m
Read the names carved into these steps and hear what a Waterloo veteran said before he died and hear the storey behind the Emmeline Pankhurst Statue
The Midland (Pass by)
See the plaque marking a handshake that launched one of the world's most recognised brands.

Location

Activity location
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    Piccadilly Gardens
    • Manchester, United Kingdom
Meeting/Redemption Point
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    Queen Victoria's Statue
    • Piccadilly
    • M1 1LU, Manchester, England, United Kingdom

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