A guided walk around the Manchester Peace Trail

Hello. I am writing to a number of people who have expressed interest in the Manchester Peace Trail to invite you to join us on this guided walk around the Trail. I’m sure you will discover something new about Manchester’s radical history.

A guided walk around the Manchester Peace Trail

SUNDAY 26 MARCH

1.30 meet at VICTORIA STATION (under the tiled map)

Finish in Piccadilly Gardens around 4.00.

No need to book – just turn up with your friends

Fully accessible

The walk will cover sites connected with the growth of Manchester as the world’s first industrial city and its importance as a centre for peace and radical political activity, including

· Peterloo and the popular reform movement

· The Free Trade Hall, suffragettes to the Sex Pistols

· Abraham Lincoln, Manchester Cathedral and the campaign against slavery

· The Hidden Gem and religious tolerance, free-thinking and science

· Migration and the movement of peoples

· MAG and the Nobel Peace Prize

· The unknown Elizabeth Raffald

· Historic libraries and public art

· Alan Turing and gay rights (if time allows)

There is no charge but donations to Manchester CND to help with our campaigning against nuclear weapons will be welcome.

Manchester Peace Trail was produced by the Manchester City Council Secretary for Nuclear Free Local Authorities / UK and Ireland Chapter of Mayors for Peace in conjunction with Greater Manchester CND, and was then updated as one of the EU-funded peace trails in 7 European cities, launched in 2015 and which opens in this site: www.discoverpeace.eu

If you can’t make this one, but would like a bespoke walk as a fund-raiser, social event or conference activity for a group that you are involved with, or for more information, please contact Steve Roman, 07939 059844.

 

“Your walk was a very different way of engaging our audience and it opened up some of the history and background of the day in terms of regional significance and the importance of Manchester as a host.”

“All participants expressed high appreciation of the walk and the deep and broad information you shared with us about the history of Manchester. We explored Manchester today from a totally different perspective.”