New to the city or just looking to be refreshed at parts you have reached before, this is the ideal walk, a taster, a teaser, a trip through town. It’s a best of everything, taking in the old and the new, the ancient and the artful – from a hidden gem of a church to the Chinatown arch; from Manchester Art Gallery with its Pre-Raphaelite paintings to the Gothic splendour of Manchester Town Hall. It’s the perfect welcome or welcome back to the 21st century city.
Did you see Oppenheimer, the blockbuster, Oscar-winning film about the atom bomb, 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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