Liverpool
Liverpool’s Wonderful Waterfront
Next tour is on Zoom: Wednesday 23 June 2021, 8pm. Meet: on your computer, not by the Dockers’ Umbrella! Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. 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 …
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On The Waterfront: Peerless Pierhead
Next tour: Fri 5 July 2019. Meet: Liverpool Town Hall, 2pm. Booking: Please book here with eventbrite. It’s the greatest urban panorama in the country, a mesmerising vista of baroque towers, skyscraping elevations, exquisite stone palaces and breathtaking brick warehouses. It’s Liverpool by the sea…Pierhead…not just Three Graces but the Art Deco marvel that is …
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Glorious Georgian Liverpool
This tour: Sunday 16 February 2020. Meet: Adelphi Hotel, 1pm. Booking: Please book with eventbrite. Lovingly created in brick, stone, and the finest oak and mahogany furnishings, Liverpool’s Georgian quarter is the last word in elegant city living with the open waters of the estuary, two cathedrals, two world-famous football teams and a host of …
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Underground Tunnels of Liverpool
Ed Glinert, creator of the highly popular Underground Manchester and London Zooms, hosts this trip below Britain’s greatest maritime city. Next tour is on Zoom: Monday 21 June 2021, 8pm. Meet: On your computer. Booking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. *** * Disused railway tunnels just tempting the carefree and curious. * The …
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Manchester News
- 76 Years Since the Atom Bomb – the Manchester Connection
Here in Manchester, we’re appallingly served by the media. The country’s best magazines, such as The Spectator, are 99% London-oriented, and the local Manchester Evening News is obsessed with celebrity nonsense, violence and tat. Anyone who wants to read something interesting, fascinating and eye-opening on Manchester has barely anywhere to go – apart from New Manchester Walks.
I was hoping the new Mill would be receptive, but I’m not woke enough or young enough. Great stories are missed. Below is one of the greatest involving Manchester, and with global connotations.
The Manchester Evening News would not touch the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in 2017, the event that led to the creation of the State of Israel, which had huge connections with Manchester, something we explain on our Jewish Manchester walks. Their reasoning: “No one would read it,” one of the editors explained to me. This in the conurbation with Britain’s second biggest Jewish community. Shame on them.
Here’s another story they wouldn’t touch.
Seventy-five years ago, in August 1945, two atom bombs were dropped on Japan, killing more than…
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