In association with the Manchester Literature Festival we celebrate the muse over Manchester, over Coketown, Hanky Park, Magnolia Street, Milton, Lord Byron’s Middleton, Sylvia Plath’s grave…
This is the roadtrip to out-Kerouac Kerouac; a coach journey through the pages of Manchester and beyond.
Meet Visitor Centre, Piccadilly Plaza, 11.30am. Ends late afternoon. Booking only through Quaytickets.com, 0843 208 0500. £15.
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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