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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Come on a walk, book a private tour, or arrange a face to face talk or Zoom with an official Manchester tour guide.

Ed Glinert and his team have created more than a hundred immaculately researched, highly-entertaining offerings in and around Manchester, the world’s greatest industrial city, the world’s first industrial city, the capital of the North!, unearthing stories about places and people no one thought possible.  

We can do everything: from touristy introductions to Manchester, to Hacienda era music, the Pankhursts, architecture, Marx & Engels, the pre-Raphaelites, football history, L. S. Lowry, Jewish Manchester, Peterloo, industrial history, the canals and so much more.
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We at New Manchester Walks have been at the forefront of getting more people to visit and stay in Manchester. Customers have come from the Midlands, London, Holland – the record is New Zealand; beat that! – to go on our tours. But we want you to enjoy your visit, whether it be an afternoon away from regular golf in Northenden or a once in a lifetime city break. So when you’ve been on our tours and want something else to do here are the top ten things it’s best not to avoid or be wary of, from No. 10, the least worst of the ten, to No. 1, the pits.

The Gay Village – The Trafford Centre – Curry Mile – Rylands By Yourself –
Rolls Met Royce Tours of the Midland – Corrie Cobbles – Sightseeing Bus Tour – 
Inside Man Utd – Christmas Markets – Science and Industry Museum

10. The Gay Village
Once it was revolutionary, now it’s passé. The pubs play deafening crap music, the restaurants are over-priced, the place is overrun with chavs, and no one has made any attempt to get to grips with its history.
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1. What’s gone wrong at the John Rylands Library

As the most opinionated, most confident (and best-researched) writer in Manchester, it’s time for me to share some critical thoughts with people who will appreciate them. I’ll start with one of Manchester’s best-loved attractions, the John Rylands Library on Deansgate.

This is one of the world’s greatest libraries, with a remarkable collection that includes the personal papers of such luminaries as John Dalton, Elizabeth Gaskell and John Wesley. It is also home to the oldest piece of the New Testament ever found, the St John Fragment. So what a shame that the library is run like a cross between Theresa May’s Brexit deal committee and Man Utd’s transfer target working group…
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Visitors, tourists, locals! Don’t be taken in by the so-called free tour of Manchester that isn’t really free and is taken by a rogue guide unaccountable to the council or tourist board.

Come round Manchester with an official guide and see the city’s great sights and important sites – the Town Hall, Art Gallery, John Rylands Library, Free Trade Hall, Chinatown and more – on this daily tour with an expert.

We start from the Visitor Centre at 1.30pm.
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The autumn Manchester Literature Festival is here and we at New Manchester Walks are leading a host of literary themed tours covering every single aspect of the written word – not just in October, but all year round!

A special highlight and a brand new tour takes place on Sat 21 Oct – Ted Hughes Country (Hills, Hymns, Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall). Lots of brooding poems under lowering skies. Ends at Sylvia Plath’s sad grave. Meet Mytholmroyd station, 12.30pm.

The tours have been devised by New Manchester Walks’s Ed Glinert, author, editor, journalist, the only Manchester writer and tour guide whose books have been published by Penguin, Random House, HarperCollins and Bloomsbury.
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