The world’s most famous waterway starts a ship’s hoot away from the city centre in the most obscure of locations. We trace its origins in the River Irwell, revealing the history of how this most ambitious of waterways was cut through Manchester and Salford to be filled with ocean-going liners laden with the fruits of a thousand exotic imports and exports, servicing one of the biggest ports in Britain – 35 miles from the sea.
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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