Celebrating Greater Eccles - Transport Tour

My name is Danny Moloney, Your Guide & Tour Host. I was born in Eccles and have been a lifelong resident, I am enthusiastic about the area I was born, bred, live and work in. The concept of the ‘Greater Eccles - A Place in History - Transport Tour’ came after discussions with AirBnB who have recently developed their ‘Experiences Program’ which builds upon their highly successful global ‘Stay Program’. AirBnB promote their experiences as ‘Unique activities we can do together, led by a world of hosts’. Picking up the theme created by AirBnB, we thought that the unique Transport History of Greater Eccles deserved greater global and historical awareness with both transport and history fans; so we created a tour specifically targeted at our unique rail, tram, canal, road, port and air travel story. We have built our story around the focal ‘sites’ of the transport history of Greater…