Weird and Wonderful
Underground Manchester (Now on Zoom!)
We go down, down, deeper and down into Manchester’s biggest World War 2 air-raid shelter, where thousands huddled in safety from the Nazi bombs in the long-disused tunnel of the Manchester and Salford Junction Canal.
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Manchester Wildlife
2018 tours: No public dates yet. Meet: To be decided. Manchester is home to a wide variety of wildlife: waterbirds, waders, black redstarts (rarer than ospreys or golden eagles) and peregrine falcons. These are the world’s fastest birds, capable of reaching 120 mph in a dive, and they are culling the city’s pigeons. Join Steve …
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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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