Week of Jun 12th
12/06/2024 - The Glories of Manchester Architecture with Riba Judge Ed Glinert and 1 other event
The Glories of Manchester Architecture with Riba Judge Ed Glinert
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12/06/2024
Midland Hotel, ManchesterThe Pre-Raphaelites of Manchester: FREE expert tour
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12/06/2024
15/06/2024 - The 1996 Manchester Bomb: 28th Anniversary Expert Tour
The 1996 Manchester Bomb: 28th Anniversary Expert Tour
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15/06/2024
The morning of Saturday the 15th of June 1996. A man with an Irish accent phones the Manchester media to say that a bomb is set to go off in the city centre. Because he gives the correct code word, the authorities realise this is serious. The bomb is in a van on Corporation Street by a pillar box outside Marks & Spencer.
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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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