Haunted Walk: Echoes and Ghosts of the Past

22 ECHOES

Skyliner
Skyliner
theskyliner.org

A city is made of memories, listen for their echoes…

A history walk with a hint of ghosts, crime and the gritty underbelly of life in early Manchester. A walk by Skyliner for Bruntwood SciTech.

Greenhey and its echoes

1 sound

Key smuggling for Ireland

Paddy O'Donoghue and the IRA in Greenheys

1 sound

Old Abbey chants

The site of a colour protest in 1953 by Len Johnson

1 sound

Female penitentiary

A home for 'fallen women'

1 sound

The Public Chastiser

The dark side of Greenheys

1 sound

Clowns and manure

Stable scandals

1 sound

Rochdale Canal

To reach the canal, walk down the alley across from Gloucester Street or down the side of the Ritz

1 sound

The Blue Death

Cholera in the 1800s

1 sound

Mass burials at All Saints

16,000 bodies beneath your feet

1 sound

Widdershins

Don't walk anticlockwise around the church!

1 sound

Manchester School of Spooky Painters

Haunted-looking art from the new school of painters

1 sound

River Medlock horrors

A pile of bodies at the Palace Hotel

1 sound

Premature Burials

Why all the panic?

1 sound

MRI's beginnings in mummification

The story of Hannah Beswick

1 sound

More stories of the MRI

Tragedies from its beginnings

1 sound

Little Ireland slums

Life in the grimmest part of the city - an account by Fredreigh Engels

1 sound

Mill fires and murders

Death in the workplace

1 sound

Spanking Roger

Roger Aytoun and his wife Mrs Minshull leave behind their ghosts in the street names of the city, but who were they?

1 sound

All Saints - a ghost of London

emulating London through street names

1 sound

Load of rubbish

Not sure this counts as recycling...

1 sound

Visual echoes

Remnants of an upper layer of the city

1 sound

Noir inspiration at the Palace

Film noir, murder novels and a hotel of symbols and strange passageways

1 sound

DOWNLOAD OUR APP TO DISCOVER THIS TOUR AND MANY OTHERS.

play-storeapp-store

Or start creating tours, treasure hunts, POI maps... Just let your imagination guide you.

SIGN UP

Other walks nearby

QuiteSureWhatIamDoing

QuiteSureWhatIamDoing

Manchester, Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom
free
BIMM Manchester (Merchant Exchange)

BIMM Manchester (Merchant Exchange)

Manchester
Example Soundwalk for MPM703 week 3
free
Wanders in the (wild) smart city

Wanders in the (wild) smart city

Manchester
This sound walk through central Manchester explores the networked digital processes that are happening all around us in new, smart cities, through technologies which are embedded in the urban environment, but which often remain invisible to us. The walk takes between 50 minutes and an hour to complete. It is accessible to wheelchair users and a transcript is included below. If you have any other access needs or queries, please drop us a line at wildingthesmartcity@gmail.com. We'd be very happy to help. Please download the walk to your phone before you come to the starting point, which is St Peter’s Square in central Manchester and make sure you allow Echoes to use your location to trigger the sounds. It is designed to be experienced through headphones, so make sure you bring yours with you. These walks are part of a wider research project, so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. Please respond through this online questionnaire (https://forms.office.com/r/i2jYQN3Ysy) and get in touch at wildingthesmartcity@gmail.com if you would like to book a follow up interview to discuss your experience. The walk begins at Manchester Central Library, at the edge of St Peter’s Square in the heart of the city. From the front of the library, bear left and take a seat at the first wide bench you see in front of St Peter’s Square tram stop. All instructions and guidance will be offered within the audio, so you should be able to put your phone away for the duration. If you get lost or lose the audio, you can always check the map, which shows your route through the city. A transcript of the text of the walk is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ygxo9gFZgB4rl-tacpPa1qpRGEl-hcEI/view?usp=sharing PLEASE NOTE: due to a technical issue in the application, the final echo (Echo 8) is not playing on some devices. If you have any problems with this, please stop the walk and start it again, disabling Auto-Play, so Echo 8 can be played manually.
free
Where? a walk into Extinction

Where? a walk into Extinction

Whitworth Park, Oxford Rd., Manchester, England M15 6ER, United Kingdom
Where have all the flowers gone? Young ones have picked them, every one. Where have all the forrest gone? Gone to logging, every one. Where have all the ice caps gone? Gone to oceans, every one. Where have all the islands gone? Underwater, every one. Why have all the people come? For survival every one. Where have all the food crops gone? Gone to deserts every one. Where have all the children gone? Gone to war zones, every one. Where have all the creatures gone? Gone extinct, every one. Where have all the humans gone? Gone to history everyone. Why must all the rebels come? For survival every one!
free
Wild Nature Trail

Wild Nature Trail

Manchester
This sound walk through central Manchester aims to reveal and highlight the presence and activity of wild nature in the city, particularly in the form of plants, trees and waterways that exist in forgotten or in-between spaces, often in spite of the human activity that dominates or surrounds them. The walk takes around 50 minutes to complete. It is accessible to wheelchair users and a transcript is included below. If you have any other access needs or queries, please drop us a line at wildingthesmartcity@gmail.com. We'd be very happy to help. Please download the walk to your phone before you come to the starting point, which is St Peter’s Square in central Manchester and make sure you allow Echoes to use your location to trigger the sounds. It is designed to be experienced through headphones, so make sure you bring yours with you. These walks are part of a wider research project, so any feedback you have would be greatly appreciated. Please respond through this online questionnaire (https://forms.office.com/r/i2jYQN3Ysy) and get in touch at wildingthesmartcity@gmail.com if you would like to book a follow up interview to discuss your experience. The walk begins at Manchester Central Library, at the edge of St Peter’s Square in the heart of the city. From the front of the library, turn right, following the curve of the building and sit on the second large wooden bench if you can, facing the entrance of the Midland Hotel. All instructions and guidance will be offered within the audio, so you should be able to put your phone away for the duration. If you get lost or lose the audio, you can always check the map, which shows your route through the city. A transcript of the text of the walk is available here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12BbWewlwxb4bZCuw6tE5Kwcq6Lapi10x/view?usp=sharing
free
Somewhere over the Rainbow: Gay Village Trail

Somewhere over the Rainbow: Gay Village Trail

Manchester
The PRIDE trail campaign celebrates the rich history of the iconic Gay Village and documents the LGBTQ+ community’s fight for equality throughout the decades.
free
Public:Private

Public:Private

Manchester
an imagery pride that is comprised of memories, music, and foreign sounds.
free
EE test at HP

EE test at HP

free
A Meeting Place | 会议地点

A Meeting Place | 会议地点

36 Charlotte Street, City Centre, Manchester, M1 4GS, United Kingdom
A Meeting Place | 会议地点 layers original sound compositions and field recordings with photographs and oral histories from the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Art's (CFCCA) archive, in which interviewees talk of their migrant experience, their identities as people of Chinese heritage living in the UK, memories of Manchester's Chinatown and Chinese festivals, and CFCCA’s first venue at 36 Charlotte Street. The audio for this work has been mixed in 360-degree binaural audio, providing a fully immersive experience that sonically animates the archival materials and creating the sensation that different sounds are being emitted from all directions around the listener’s head.
free

Are you a creator?

START HERE
Get in touch

hello@echoes.xyz

support@echoes.xyz

+44 (0)7895 691248

Echoes creative apps

Explore walks

Membership & pricing

Creator Log in/Sign up

Echoes labs

Case studies

About us

Journal

FAQ

Contact

Love what we do? ➔ become our Open Collective backer

Privacy & cookie policy / Terms and conditions

© ECHOES. All rights reserved / ECHOES.XYZ Limited is a company registered in England and Wales, Registered office at Merston Common Cottage, Merston, Chichester, West Sussex, PO20 1BE

v2.5.15 © ECHOES. All rights reserved.