Dare to drop down, down, deeper and down, into the deepest depths of the dark, dank city. We unveil what’s below your feet on the mean streets and then follow the old canal from its gorgeous landscaped setting behind the Bridgewater Canal into the very bowels of Manchester, a lightless world where the wind never blows, the sun never shines and you can’t be sure the hand you can’t see in front of your face is your own.
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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