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- 22 August 2026
Manchester City Centre Peace Trail No 2 – A Guided Walk
Join a guided walk exploring Manchester’s rich peace and social history.
22 August 2026
11:00am - 1:00pm
Manchester
M1 3HB
Meeting Place: Alan Turing Memorial
Fairfield Street
Manchester
M1 3HB
£10 The guide is donating his fee to charity
Overview
Join a guided walk exploring Manchester’s rich peace and social history.
A guided walk around parts of the Manchester Peace Trail, starting at the Turing Statue in Sackville Park at 10.45am for 11.00am. The accessible route will take us via HOME and the Peterloo Memorial, to finish in St Peter’s Square around 1.00pm.
On the way we will consider
- Alan Turing and gay rights
- Engels, Peterloo and the popular reform movement
- Lydia Becker, Margaret Ashton, the Suffragists and Suffragettes
- John Dalton, Ernest Rutherford and the nuclear time-line, free-thinking, education and science
- and the various peace and radical memorials in Central Library.
Join volunteer walk leader and peace activist Steve Roman for an illuminating and inspiring guided walk along parts of the Manchester Peace Trail. This walk complements the Literary & Philosophical Society walk he led in April.
Journeying through the Peace Trail will bring alive Manchester’s history of research which was to lead to the development of the atom bomb. Also covered will be its radical history, its growth as the world’s first industrial city and its importance as a centre for peace, tolerance and the promotion of social justice in the city and around the globe. Buildings and locations will gain new meanings as we learn about their peace history and the relevance for social justice movements. www.discoverpeace.eu
The guide is donating his fee to charity
Location
Meet at 10:45am at the Turing Statue in Sackville Park.
Steve Roman
With an interest in history, architecture and industrial heritage as well as politics and the peace movement, Steve Roman was involved in the development of the Manchester Peace Trail and has volunteered to lead more than 200 groups around the Trail since 2012, including for students, conferences, heritage or campaigning groups, or to raise funds for charitable causes.