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Food Walk: Warehouses and Markets in Manchester FULLY BOOKED

  • The Portico Library 57 Mosley Street Manchester, England, M2 3HY United Kingdom (map)

£10 or pay what you can. Book here.

Join industrial Archaeologist Steve Little for a walking tour of where Mancunians stored and sold their food in the nineteenth century.

Start at the Portico Library for a cup of tea or coffee, then set off around the ware houses and some of the markets (or sites of them) in Manchester. We'll finish somewhere in the Northern Quarter and timings tbc as we need to do a reccie!

Make sure you bring drinking water, wear appropriate clothes and shoes. Surfaces will be uneven.

Image shows the former wholesale fish market The former Manchester wholesale fish market now houses upmarket apartments. This shot shows the front of the building on High Street. Via Wikipedia: Alan Godfree / Former wholesale fish market / CC BY-SA 2.0

Earlier Event: August 3
Queering Poetry