* This Zoom tour is being hosted by Trafford Libraries.
* Tue 2 February 2021, 2pm.
Slabs of bronze and marble embody celebrated figures from the past. These are Manchester’s Stone Poses, standing solemn at prominent corners.
Less noticeable, but as incandescently proud, the signs and symbols that give the city deeper meaning.
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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