New Manchester Walks on water during this 3-hour canal trip with a comprehensive commentary onboard 'LS Lowry' or 'Emmeline Pankhurst'. We cruise along the Bridgewater Canal, Manchester Ship Canal and River Irwell, waterways filled with a thousand stories of lockside lore – of deep docks that could hold a dozen ships, of Pomona Pleasure Gardens, of boats laden with Guinness, coal and Scandinavian timber. From Castlefield, birthplace of Roman Manchester, industrial Manchester, and setting for Britain’s first canal and railway station, we venture along The Bridgewater Canal, past grand old mills and funky new waterside apartments until we get to Pomona. Here we go through the lock, transferring to the Manchester Ship Canal, the great waterway as wide as Panama as deep as Suez. Once it was thronged with the world’s ocean-going liners. Now it is the gateway to Salford Quays, the new city on the old canal. At the Quays we explore the old docks, no longer lined with warehouses filled with cotton but dotted with glass-and-granite skyscrapers, epic museums such as The Lowry Centre and Imperial War Museum North, and the fast-rising towers of Media City UK, the most exciting new building project north of the Olympic stadium. We then cruise back to Castlefield replete with seafaring Salfordian satisfaction. Pre-booking essential with www.quaytickets.com
HISTORICAL CRUISES - CALENDAR 2011
Date
Time
Price
Sun
18 December
11:30
*
£19.50
Including mince pies & mulled wine
HISTORICAL CRUISES - CALENDAR 2012
Date
Time
Price
Mon
02 January
11:30
*
£19.50
Including mince pies & mulled wine
Sat
21 January
11:30
£15.00
Fri
10 February
11:30
£15.00
Sat
25 February
11:30
£15.00
Thu
15 March
11:30
£15.00
Sat
31 March
11:30
£15.00
Mon
09 April
11:30
£15.00
Easter Monday
Unsuitable for children.
Tea, coffee and licensed bar available.
All of these cruises must be booked direct with 'Quay Tickets'
Please do not contact us at City Centre Cruises to make a booking or enquiry for any of the above cruises. All bookings must be made with Quay Tickets: 0843 208 0500 or visit www.quaytickets.com Enquiries about New Manchester Walks: info@newmanchesterwalks.com
