Stravinsky conducted here, Joe Sunlight built here, Yuri Gagarin posed outside the Town Hall after walking above here (in space), bits of The Communist Manifesto were researched here, and the city council has a friendship agreement with St Petersburg. Why, it’s practically Manchester S. S. R!
Will Vlad Putin accept our invitation as we celebrate 100 years since the 10 Days That Shook The World?
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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