Boris has boomed. Monday 17 May: groups of up to 30 people, which means we can take you round the streets of Manchester, Liverpool, Haworth, Knutsford and beyond.
And we kick off with a sojourn among the graves and Gothic glories of Southern Cemetery at 12 noon.
This has to be booked (on Eventbrite) as we can only take 30, not 300, folks!
The atom bomb is hot news right now, thanks to this summer’s big blockbuster film, Oppenheimer, named after J. Robert Oppenheimer, organiser of the Manhattan Project which dropped the bombs on Japan in 1945.
Ed Glinert of New Manchester Walks, who has hosted countless local tours that include stopping at the atomic bunker on Chinatown’s George Street, and gives talks on the story of the atom bomb on cruise ships, relates the full atomic story to coincide with the release of the film and as the 78th anniversary of the dropping of the bombs in August 1945 to end the Second World War approaches.
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