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Manchester is home to a wide variety of wildlife: waterbirds, waders, black redstarts (rarer than ospreys or golden eagles) and peregrine falcons. These are the world’s fastest birds, capable of reaching 120 mph in a dive, and they are culling the city’s pigeons.
Join Steve Bourne for a city safari. Please bring some binoculars!
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. Continue reading