We’ve found Santa’s sacks. They’re buried way under the city streets in the tunnels we have been frequenting all year in the very depths of Manchester. Forget Christmas shopping and come with us to the land where the sun never shines and you can’t be sure that the hand you can’t see in front of your face is yours or belongs to the next walker – that’s if there is anyone else down there.
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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