Back by popular demand, and organised in partnership with New Manchester Walks, Ed Glinert takes you on a refreshing tour of watering holes once frequented by Manchester’s literati. The ghosts of Anthony Burgess, Brendan Behan and Thomas De Quincey haunt the barstools and taprooms of many a Manchester tavern, in particular Mr Thomas’s Chop House on Cross Street. This was where the cotton merchants trading at the Royal Exchange, most likely including that unmatchable social commentator Friedrich Engels, would tuck into a red hot chop at lunchtime in Victorian times. A century later it was a favourite drinking venue of Anthony Burgess who recalled in his memoirs ‘hard-headed magnates and cotton brokers gorging red meat in chophouses’. For more information please call 07769 298068. Please book early to avoid disappointment, as places are limited.