A guided tour throughout Manchester's rich industrial heritage

eyetour iPhone applications combine the best features of your mobile device and blend seamlessly with our unique content to deliver a feature-rich and interactive guided tour around our chosen locations.

This iPhone tour will guide you through some of Manchester's rich industrial heritage, from it's early beginnings as a Roman settlement, through it's emergence as an industrial powerhouse thanks to the cotton industry and finally taking you right up-to-date with modern developments in the city.

Distance: 2.6 miles
Approximate time: 1hour 30 minutes

To use, simply load the app and click 'launch the tour'. Then using the GPS in your phone, simply follow the suggested route from point to point. When you arrive at each destination, clicking the blue arrow on the map marker will display information about that particular point of interest.

The eyetour Industrial Manchester iPhone app is available as a free download: click here to download.


Roman beginnings

Explore the early origins of the city at the the Roman era fort of Mancunium which gave it's name to Manchester.

"Cottonopolis"

Discover how the cotton industry helped Manchester developed into the commercial centre of the North of England.

Modern Manchester

See how the rich industrial heritage of the city has been carried forward into the Manchester we know today.