The climbing spires of Manchester Cathedral, the visionary work of the John Rylands Library and the towering turrets of Manchester Town Hall are just three of the great sights that go to make this the most Gothic of cities.
We will also examine the Gothic literature of the period, in particularly that which streamed from the Manchester-hewn, opium-tinted pen of Thomas de Quincey, and the Gothic Manchester that the psychogeography created.
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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