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Jonathan Schofield Tours Jonathan Schofield has been a registered Blue Badge Guide since 1996 and offers a wide variety of tours in this great city

Jonathan Schofield has been a registered Blue Badge Guide since 1996 and is the Editor-at-Large of Manchester Confidential (www.manchesterconfidential.com) the city’s largest independent magazine. He is also the Editor of Manchester Books Limited (www.mcrbooks.co.uk) and has written several books on the North West. He is a regular broadcaster on local and national radio recently appearing on Melvyn Bragg’s The Matter of the North on Radio 4

25/10/2026

Beetham Tower is singing again. This video was taken a while ago but last night and this morning the same effect has been heard ringing out across Manchester city centre. I’m very fond of its haunting sonics on the rare occasions it happens.

The Brutalism tours. 5.30pm-7pm. Thursday 15 October and Thursday 12 November. I’ve teamed up with the excellent Manches...
13/10/2026

The Brutalism tours. 5.30pm-7pm. Thursday 15 October and Thursday 12 November. I’ve teamed up with the excellent Manchester Wire the city’s cultural magazine, to deliver these evening tours. So come and explore Manchester’s bold Brutalist buildings on a fact-filled and amusing in-person walking tour. This is how Manchester was re-imagined after World War II. £20 pp, under 12s free. Book here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/brutalist-architecture-tour-manchester-wire-x-jonathan-schofield-tours-tickets-1998429110265 ManchesterSocietyofArchitects

01/10/2026

Manchester Town Hall is such a tease

The Secrets of Chapel Street tour THIS Saturday 19 September at 3pm. It’s just £4. This celebrates the changes on Chapel...
18/09/2026

The Secrets of Chapel Street tour THIS Saturday 19 September at 3pm. It’s just £4. This celebrates the changes on Chapel Street during the centenary of Salford’s city status.

Chapel Street and Greengate are the centre of old Salford with an outstanding history including invading armies, dole protests, novelists and songwriters, elegant generals, important newspaper editors and huge 21st century re-invention. There are love stories, ghost stories, drunk stories, atomic bunkers and, of course, penalty shoot-outs from 1906 at the famous Flat Iron Market. There are also new plans and new buildings and new squares. This area has come vibrantly to life once more and we’ll look at all of it on this tour. The price is a bargain £4. Just turn up on the day outside the Sacred Trinity church, Chapel Street/ Blackfriars Street junction
Sounds From The Other City Porta Tapas Salford The Kings Arms From The Other

The saddest story in Greater Manchester church or perhaps in any UK church
18/09/2026

The saddest story in Greater Manchester church or perhaps in any UK church

Sacred Trinity is a bit of a mixture. The tower which is Gothic in style, look at those pointed arches, dates from 1634-35.

24/08/2026

Tony Wilson statue proposal The Manchester Evening News and web magazine I Love Manchester have revealed a campaign to place a large statue in Salford facing across the river. I love Manchester offered an AI/CGI image of the said statue which definitely won’t be the final version.

20/08/2026

( Coming up: The Secrets of Knutsford Tour One of the most entertaining towns in the north of England. This is a fun one.

17/06/2026

A fine and real Roman Road on my favourite eminence in the world…oh and some poetry too

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