Hundreds dead, thousands injured. The Royal Exchange bombed, the Cathedral devastated, the Free Trade Hall wrecked, Manchester Blitzed.
During war truth is the first casualty, reality gets twisted, which probably explains why the Manchester authorities knocked up a plywood version of the city on the moors near Burnley to confuse the Luftwaffe. Really.
There are many many more equally bizarre Manchester wartime secrets.
Ps. Don’t let on the War’s over.
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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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