It’s Europe’s biggest park, a verdant, arboreal landscape filling north Manchester, dominated by a gorgeous Georgian Grecian Grade I mansion, once home of the Egerton family, designed by James Wyatt of the famous Wyatt family of architects.
We will peruse and perambulate the park, tell the story of the Pope’s 1981 visit, Roy and Haley’s tete-a-tete by the lake, find the last remaining vestige of Manchester’s first Town Hall, and worship at the Classical fountains and embellishments.
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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