Liverpool
Liverpool’s Wonderful Waterfront
Next tour: No dates yet. Meet: Booking: For private booking, please contact Ed Glinert, edglinert@yahoo.co.uk, 07769 29 8068. It’s the greatest urban waterside urban panorama in the country, a mesmerising vista of deep dark docks, baroque towers, skyscraping elevations, exquisite stone palaces and breathtaking brick warehouses. It’s Liverpool by the sea…not just Pierhead, the Three …
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Liverpool in 12 Songs
Next tour is on Zoom: Sunday 18 April 2021, 2.30pm. Meet: on your computer! Booking: Please press here to book with evenbrite. Only 12 songs? We will tour the city finding the locations and telling the stories that inspired some of the world’s greatest songs. It’s a long list to cut down from to find …
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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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