Seasonal greetings as we recover from the day when no one works, apart from doctors, nurses, bar staff, spin doctors and tour guides.
Ed Glinert is back in Manchester, hungry for Mediaeval Manchester and Strangeways on Saturday 28 December, followed on the Sunday by Ancoats and Angel Meadow, and a host of other imminent tours. Please book on eventbrite as usual.
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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