Week of May 13th
14/05/2024 - Manchester Libraries Honoured: the Portico & the streets of Chinatown. FREE expert tour
Manchester Libraries Honoured: the Portico & the streets of Chinatown. FREE expert tour
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14/05/2024
As part of the Manchester Libraries Festival, official Manchester tour guide Ed Glinert leads this detailed tour of the Portico Library and the history of the streets around,
Manchester Art Gallery18/05/2024 - Ian Curtis's Manchester (Annual Tour on 18 May) and 1 other event
Ian Curtis's Manchester (Annual Tour on 18 May)
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18/05/2024
Calling all Ian Curtis/Joy Division fans. We meet hundreds of you every year aimlessly wandering around Manchester city centre looking for relevant locations: the Hacienda, Rafter’s, the Britons Protection .... If only you booked a tour with us, you’d find out so much more, and we could relate all these places and their music stories with the history of the city while playing the appropriate track at the relevant site/sight!
Outside the Mercure HotelThe Smiths’ Manchester (Mozarmy Weekend)
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18/05/2024Outside the Mercure Hotel
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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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