Week of Mar 27th
29/03/2023 - The Pre-Raphaelites & the Great Art Treasures of Manchester
The Pre-Raphaelites & the Great Art Treasures of Manchester
–
29/03/2023Outside St Ann's Church31/03/2023 - Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Yorkshire Ripper (Shock City Tours)
Savile, Brady, Hindley, Shipman, the Yorkshire Ripper (Shock City Tours)
–
31/03/2023Although this is a FREE tour, you do still need to book your spot.
Buy Tickets01/04/2023 - Manchester’s Victorian Architecture FREE Expert Tour with Riba Judge Ed Glinert
Manchester’s Victorian Architecture FREE Expert Tour with Riba Judge Ed Glinert
–
01/04/2023
The Builder magazine said “one can scarcely walk about Manchester without coming across frequent examples of the grand in architecture. There is nothing to equal it since the building of Venice.”
Outside the Mercure Hotel
Search
Manchester News
- Oppenheimer – the Manchester atomic connection
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.
Continue reading