Next tour, The Cotton Mills of Manchester:
Wed 3 April 2019.
Meet: Friedrich Engels Statue outside HOME, 2pm.
Booking: Please book here with eventbrite.
The Luddites burnt down the first cotton mills in Manchester, but some of the darkest, if not most Satanic, mills remain around Oxford Road station. This is the story of how Manchester grew rich from the cool cosmopolitan cloth.
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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