Public tours
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Private tours
🏛️ Civic heritage ⛪ Sacred places 🏥 Health, Welfare & Reform 🏙️ Urban Change & New Build 🎨 Art, Sculpture and Street Art ⚖️ Law, Order & Civic Power 🏘️ Neighbourhood Histories 🌊 Waterfronts & the Quays 🧭 Radical Rebels and Revolutionaries 🧱 Architecture & Built Form. 🚶 Short, Themed Walking Tours 🏭 Industrial, Scientific & Innovation Tours- 🛡️ Romans […]
Coal, Cotton and Canal Tour – Bridgewater Stories
Alexandra can provide a fun factual walk for all ages exploring the secrets of the past of theBridgewater Canal and its villages inc Worsley, Boothstown & Astley Green. At AstleyGreen, we will walk through the village and there will be opportunity to look around themuseum, see the last Pit Head Gear of the Lancashire Coalfield and look around the museumand […]
Creative Quays Tour
This tour highlights remarkable feats of both Georgian and Victorian engineering, linking the Salfordto Manchester and then beyond, Both the Bridgewater Canal and the Manchester Ship Canal.rejuvenated the dormant economies and led to canalmania and cottonopolis and then enabledManchester to become one of Britain’s biggest and busiest ports, despite it being inland. Opened in1894 and closing in 1984, it was […]
Spires, Swings and Steam – The Story of the Industrial Revolution and the Bridgewater Canal
Alexandra can take you on a trip through history as we learn of a rural Barton whichdeveloped rapidly as a result firstly of the Duke’s Cut and then the Manchester ShipCanal. Visit a living Monastery & see a wonder of the Canal world – the Barton SwingAqueduct. We can walk to Patricroft to see to learn about the First passenger […]
Worsley, the Bridgewater Canal and The RHS Garden Bridgewater
Alexandra will explore the history and buildings of this remarkable village and we will learnabout its remarkable history, the people that created it and its legacy. We can walk or boatalong the Duke’s Cut – the first cut canal in England – The Bridgewater Canal- to see thenewest RHS Garden Bridgewater. Together we will discover the amazing people, thecommunities and […]
