Alexandra (aka Alexatourguide) is a heritage professional and lawyer as well as a qualified Green Badge Tourist Guide. With a passion for culture and heritage, she enjoys sharing the hidden secrets of her local area to interested individuals, tour groups, families, school groups and private parties.  She aims to create fun factual tours and talks suitable for all ages including children by taking tour guests back in time to relive historical events, people and places.

As well as offering tours of the Bridgewater Canal and its industrial engineering and archaeological heritage in Salford, she provides talks and talks on many aspects of the great north of England and assists her colleagues at Manchester Guided Tours filling in on regular Discover Manchester Tours explaining the highlights of Manchester City’s iconic buildings, people and events. She also has professional experience architectural heritage tours in Cheshire and Lancashire where she has held professional custodial roles relating to cultural heritage for many years.

As an experienced lecturer in heritage, she has specific training and interests in art, literature, music, architecture gardens and industrial archaeology also.

If you are not able to walk far or just can’t travel to England and prefer an armchair tour, she has it covered! She can take your family or group on a ‘Virtual Tour’ of a site or an area of your choice in the Greater Manchester or Cheshire areas. Using online meeting software, plus photos, videos and presentation skills, get your family or group together to come and have an hour or so of learning and travel from the comfort of your own armchair!

Lots of city quarters, libraries, museums, galleries and churches plus two wonderful Cathedrals to see as well as canal and river routes, landscaped parks and gardens and country houses near pretty villages, Salford and Manchester and its wider Greater Manchester environs have a lot to offer.