“Money makes the verld go round,” as Joel Gray sang in Cabaret. So here’s the deal. You pay us good money – £10.50 – and we will relate some pretty rich stories about the lives of the Manchester fat cats: Rothschild, Rylands, Rolls, Maxwell, and all those over-paid Premiership footballers and under-dressed Coronation Street starlets.
Big bonuses all round!
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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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