We are the official guides of Manchester, as trained by Ed Glinert, Manchester’s leading historian and most prolific tour guide, and these are the next tours.
* Sat 26 October, 11am, “Strangeways – No Escape!”
Meet Victoria Station wallmap.
* Sat 26 October, 2pm, “Manchester Music: The Hacienda Years”
Meet outside HOME.
* Sun 27 October, 2pm, “Francis Bacon: The Wild Man of Art”
Talk at Stockport Art Gallery.
* Tue 29 October, 12 noon, “Jewish Manchester”.
Meet Victoria Station wallmap.
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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