Industrial Manchester
Northern Powerhouse
Next tour: No new dates. Meet: Midland Hotel, Peter Street. To book privately (ideal for schools and universities): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Manchester was the world’s first industrial city – the first place to use the factory system to mass produce goods on a scale never before seen. And what goods! Cotton clothes exported to west …
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Cottonopolis
Next tour: no dates yet. Meet: Outside the HOME arts centre, time tbc. Booking: *** Cotton. It grows in Egypt, India, Iraq and the southern states of the US. It was shipped to the North-West in vast quantities and spun in the hundreds of mills that surrounded the city. Then it was packed and pressed, …
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The World’s First Railways
Next tour: Dates to be set. Meet: tbc. Booking: Please have your tickets ready for the inspector. To book privately (ideal for railway enthusiasts): please e-mail info@newmanchesterwalks.com. Some time around 600 BC a railway called the rutway was built in ancient Greece to move boats from the builder’s yard to the sea across the Isthmus of …
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Castlefield
Next tours: Wed 24 Aug.
Meet: outside Deansgate railway station, 11am.
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Ancoats
Next walking tour: Sunday 3 December 2023. Meet: Band on the Wall, Swan Street, 11am. Booking: Please press here to book with evenbrite. Why? Industry began in Ancoats, a factory hoot from Manchester city centre. In 1700 this was a semi-rural enclave by the river Medlock, with Ancoats Hall home to the lords of the Manchester …
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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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