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Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester 200th anniversary tribute
Title: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Manchester 200th anniversary tributeLocation: Meet Victoria Station wall map.Description: Start Time: 14:00Date: 2010/09/29
The Smiths’ Manchester – Meat is Murder 25 Years On
Title: The Smiths’ Manchester – Meat is Murder 25 Years OnLocation: Meet Oxford Road Station. Description: More melodic than the Beatles, more powerful than the Stones, catchier than U2, cleverer than the Who. They were the Smiths and they came from Manchester. Start Time: 15:00Date: 2010/08/28
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Manchester News
- 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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