Hitler's Plans for Manchester
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01/09/2024
Victoria Station wallmap inside Victoria Station, Manchester
Events in September 2024
01/09/2024 - Hitler's Plans for Manchester
07/09/2024 - Emmeline Pankhurst's Manchester: Expert Tour
Emmeline Pankhurst's Manchester: Expert Tour–
07/09/2024Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LF08/09/2024 - "Openly Jewish" FREE Expert Tour of Jewish Manchester
"Openly Jewish" FREE Expert Tour of Jewish Manchester–
08/09/2024
The Manchester area is home to Britain’s second biggest Jewish community. Yet it was not until 1788, just over a hundred years after Oliver Cromwell allowed the Jews to return to the country, that the first recorded Jewish presence appeared in Manchester: Hamilton Levi, a flower dealer of Long Millgate, listed in that year’s trade directory...
Victoria Station wallmap inside Victoria Station, ManchesterThe tour is FREE but please register and turn up, so I have a clue how many to expect! Ed.
11/09/2024 - Southern Cemetery NO TOUR THIS DAY. HEAVY RAIN
Southern Cemetery NO TOUR THIS DAY. HEAVY RAIN–
11/09/2024Southern Cemetery (Main Gates)17/09/2024 - On the Trail of L S Lowry in Manchester
On the Trail of L S Lowry in Manchester–
17/09/2024Outside the Mercure Hotel18/09/2024 - The Glories of Manchester Architecture with Riba judge Ed Glinert
The Glories of Manchester Architecture with Riba judge Ed Glinert–
18/09/2024Midland Hotel, Manchester19/09/2024 - Salford Quays: Expert Tour
Salford Quays: Expert Tour–
19/09/2024
Here a new city has risen; a city of glass, steel and burnished metal, bold and brilliant. On one side of the water the silver shards of the Imperial War Museum North. On the other the Lowry Centre, a matchless theatre for the matchstick figure artist. And they have now been joined by Media City, the futuristic home of the BBC.
Salford Quays Metrolink stop20/09/2024 - Ed Glinert talk on the history of the atom bomb (Chorlton Book Festival)
Ed Glinert talk on the history of the atom bomb (Chorlton Book Festival)–
20/09/202424/09/2024 - Welcome to Manchester (private tour)
Welcome to Manchester (private tour)–
24/09/202425/09/2024 - The History of Manchester in 20 Objects (Strange Signs, Symbols, Statues, Stuff)
The History of Manchester in 20 Objects (Strange Signs, Symbols, Statues, Stuff)–
25/09/2024
An off-beat, sideways, soidisant look at Manchester history through 20 objects, some familiar, some little-seen and barely-noticed (statues, plaques, cartouches, shields etc) in the city centre...
Outside the Mercure Hotel26/09/2024 - Strangeways (Private tour for criminology group)
Strangeways (Private tour for criminology group)–
26/09/202427/09/2024 - The Formidable Women of Manchester and 1 other event
The Formidable Women of Manchester–
27/09/2024
* Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company.
* Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848.
* Hannah Mitchell, who challenged Churchill at St John’s School during the Suffragette era.
* Shelagh Delaney who pioneered modernist theatre with her groundbreaking A Taste of Honey.
...and many moreEmmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LFSecret Manchester: The Official Tour–
27/09/2024
You think you know Manchester? Well, no one knows it like Ed Glinert, who has spent 45 years unturning every last (Gothic) stone in the city, uncovering layer upon layer of other histories, lesser-known stories, the secret side of the city to create the ultimate “believe it or not”.
Outside the Mercure Hotel
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- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
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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