Glass, steel and burnished metal tower over the quays and docks on the Manchester Ship Canal. Here are gleaming museums of the modern age, seering stretches of sun-drenched water and the shining towers of Media City, a 21st century empire for the BBC and ITV.
Salford-born Sue Grimditch will show you how the old docks became the new city.
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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