# Event Details - **Event Name**: Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm – Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm - **Event Description**: Join Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian, Britain’s most prolific tour guide, to trawl through the horrors of Victorian Angel Meadow.About this EventGuide for this tour: Ed Glinert, author of "Manchester: The Biography", the first ever epic history of the city.Angel Meadow is the “lowest, most filthy, most unhealthy, and most wicked locality in Manchester…full of cellars and inhabited by prostitutes, their bullies, thieves, cadgers, vagrants and tramps.”That was from journalist Angus Bethune Reach. Was he writing yesterday? No, thankfully. He was reporting in the 19th century when Angel Meadow was one of a number of notorious Manchester slums; probably the worst.This is what proto-communist Friedrich Engels had to say about the locale in 1844. “The landlords are not ashamed to let dwellings like the six or seven cellars on the quay directly below Scotland Bridge, the floors of which stand at least two feet below the low water level of the Irk … utterly uninhabitable, [it] stands deprived of all fittings for doors and windows, a case by no means rare in this region, when an open ground-floor is used as a privy by the whole neighbourhood for want of other facilities. . . .”A hundred yards on, at the end of Millow Street, stood “Gibraltar”. This was once described by the social commentator James Phillips Kay as the haunt of the “lowest” of the population. “The stranger, if he dare venture to explore its intricacies and recesses is sure to be watched with suspicion, on every side is heard the sound of the axe or knife…”Okay, both those revered social commentators were writing many years ago, but go there now and it’s pretty grim, which is why we guide you around these atmospheric areas, converting the squalor and sordidness into scintillating stories. And we’ve not even entered the meadow yet.Have things improved? Yes, with much thanks to the Friends of Angel Meadow. When we’ve finished with all the terrible tales we deserve an ale or two at the Marble pub with its gorgeous tiles, magnificent ales and friendly atmosphere.Show less https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/9eca73b0-e6c1-11f0-a983-4dfa8e48b99b-rimg-w528-h740-dcdad7c5-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events5/banners/9f0b2630-e6c1-11f0-a88e-cd1348abeb59-rimg-w932-h740-dc484848-gmir.jpg https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events2/banners/9f3b8500-e6c1-11f0-a983-4dfa8e48b99b-rimg-w932-h740-dc484848-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manchester/angel-meadow-victorian-hell-hole-official-manchester-tours/100001979409206220 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Manchester - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: Victoria Station wallmap - **lat**: 53.4875407 - **long**: -2.2421815 - **full address**: Victoria Station wallmap, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/256ba6727c5d1af4d55bc98cee2433b82dcb1672d70fa8fdf9f5967c666f01dc-rimg-w480-h332-dca8a8a8-gmir.jpg?v=1767237981 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours being held? - **A:** Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours takes place on Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 02:30 pm to Tue, 10 Feb, 2026 at 04:00 pm at Victoria Station wallmap, Victoria Station Approach, Manchester, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours? - **A:** Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours is organized by New Manchester Walks. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Manchester, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". Official Manchester tours sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Angel Meadow, "Victorian Hell-Hole". 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