Next 2013 tour: No dates yet.
Meet: Victoria Station wallmap, time tbc.
Old Shambles, the Manchester Guardian, the Free Trade Hall, Tommy Duck’s … where have they gone? We will visit the site, tell the story, show the pictures.
Yes, this is mostly a nostalgic exercise, as we re-create a dear departed Manchester that the best efforts of the bulldozers and JCBs can’t eradicate from our minds.
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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