As part of GM Walking Festival 2024 that’s taking place across the month of May, I’m leading a Manchester Bee walking tour on Sunday, 12th May at 10am. Starting from the steps outside Central Library in St Peter’s Square, I’ll take you on a 2...
‘There is something special in this old town,From Piccadilly Gardens to Ancoats, we’re proud,Folk are so busy but we still stop to chat,The Manchester Bee rests upon someone’s hat.’ The Manchester Bee is a new illustrated children’s book written by Peter...
There was a kerfuffle on Twitter at the beginning of the year, regarding a tweet by an American journalist posted on 31st December 2019. The tweet was sardonic comment on an image of a number of Manchester Bee tattoos, pointing out that with one set of wings, the bees...
A while ago, I had the pleasure of undertaking a Make a Manchester Bee Mosaic Class. Run by Amanada McCann, the craft class are organised through Airbnb. Running 4 hours long, the class starting point was the lobby of Manchester Art Gallery at 11am (the starting time...
Standing 217 feet (66 metres) high, the clock tower of what is now The Principal Manchester was the tallest building in Manchester for many years. A famous landmark, with four clock faces visible across the city, and upon each clock face four bees in flight indicating...