The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
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The Tour of Uninteresting Objects
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Manchester is filled to the brim with hidden histories that are very easy to miss in everyday life. You could walk around this city five times over and still not know the historical significance of something you pass with blissful ignorance.
This walking tour led by Jonathan Schofield, takes the time to stop and appreciate the under-rated elements that make up this city. Sure you see them, you might even pause a moment and admire them, but do you really know what you are gazing upon?
This bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is one most loved by Manchester locals
Taking you on a small loop around the city centre, this tour begins at St Peters Square, moves down past Deansgate to St Johns Gardens and then back up again to the Manchester Art Gallery. During which, your guide will point out the odd sculptures, mad details, washed up remnants that hold stories and tales from many years ago.
Within St Peter’s square, there are statues to take note of. For example the ‘Rise Up, Women’ monument, also commonly known as ‘Our Emmeline’. This bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst is one most loved by Manchester locals, a symbol of revolution and strength. Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.
Its beautiful stone and the consistent laying of poppy wreaths might fool you into believing it is less than 50 years old
Also in the area, you might not stop on this tour but it is hard to miss in the square itself, the Manchester Cenotaph. This war memorial was considered one of the last to be erected in the United Kingdom. Due to the city council not convening a war memorial committee until 1922, this monument wasn’t completed until 1924. However, its beautiful stone and the consistent laying of poppy wreaths might fool you into believing it is less than 50 years old, never mind 100.
The tour will point out the big and the small. Even if you are a local, there will be some details you discover along the way that you did not know before or never knew where to look. Join Jonathan Schofield this March and find the interesting in the uninteresting.
