What fun it must have been travelling from Manchester to London by stagecoach in the 18th century. You had to leave at 5am from the Bridgewater Arms (where Debenham’s is now) and three or four days later, if you hadn’t been attacked by footpads or highwaymen, would roll up at the Carter Lane terminus, in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral.
And they moan about spending 2 hrs 10 minutes on the train now!
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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