Events in April 2023
01/04/2023 - Manchester’s Victorian Architecture FREE Expert Tour with Riba Judge Ed Glinert
Manchester’s Victorian Architecture FREE Expert Tour with Riba Judge Ed Glinert
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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 Hotel06/04/2023 - The Formidable Women of Manchester
The Formidable Women of Manchester
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06/04/2023* Annie Horniman, who established Britain’s first repertory theatre company.
* Elizabeth Gaskell, who wrote Mary Barton, one of the classic “condition of England” novels in 1848.
* Hannah Mitchell, who challenged Churchill at St John’s School during the Suffragette era.
* Shelagh Delaney who pioneered modernist theatre with her groundbreaking A Taste of Honey...Emmeline Pankhurst statue, St Peter's Square, Manchester M1 4LF28/04/2023 - The Great Art Treasures of Manchester tour and 1 other event
The Great Art Treasures of Manchester tour
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28/04/2023
Thoroughly-detailed and wonderfully enlightening tours of Manchester’s greatest art treasures, from the baldacchino in the Central Library Reading Room and the reasons for its existence, which include the most wonderful links with Rome, a trip to see The Stations of the Cross in the Church of the Hidden Gem, and then into Manchester Art Gallery to see works by Turner, Lorrain, Bacon, Watts, Stubbs and of course the Pre-Raphaelites.
Chilling Tales From the Manchester Graveyards FREE tour
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28/04/2023Although this is a free tour, registration is still required. Click 'buy tickets' below to reserve your free place.
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- 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.
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