Crafty brewers during the day and live music venue at night, operating out of a railway arch in sunny Salford with a secret garden.

Sports venue in Ramsbottom and home to the annual Ramsbottom Festival.

Carved into the natural sandstone cliffs, the intriguing network of underground tunnels offers visitors an unparalleled insight into life in wartime Britain in the 1940’s.

Top hats, bowlers, trilbies …. who doesn’t love a hat? Visit the UK’s only collection devoted to hats which celebrates Stockport’s role in the hatting industry.

18th-century chapel, set in a country estate and restored for visitors. Well located as a destination for a woodland walk.

Historic house in Stockport with original Jacobean staircase now open as a museum.

Stockport War Memorial Art Gallery aims to give emerging artists the space to showcase their work. It has a varied programme, though its exhibitions often return to themes linked to…

Housed in the oldest synagogue in the city, Manchester Jewish Museum is the only museum of its type outside London.

The ‘biggest bookshop in the North’ right here in Manchester.

Elizabeth Gaskell’s House has been lovingly restored; you can now sit at her desk, see where Charlotte Brontë hid behind the curtains, and have tea in the downstairs café. The Pankhurst Centre is also nearby.

Hot Bed Press, based at the Casket Works in Salford, is a not-for-profit printmakers’ studio, is now the largest open-access print workshop in the region.

Started by artisan baker Russell Goodwin, Companio Bakery sells freshly-baked bread from a small unit in Manchester’s Ancoats.