More than a dozen weavers and workers butchered by the militia in August 1819. Mere children abducted from the Manchester streets in the so-called Swinging Sixties. An innocent Irishman knifed to death by the hangman with a pen-knife. A murder rate of one a week off Deansgate in the Victorian era. Hyman Perdovich murdering his work foreman in cold blood and then calmly handing himself in at the cop shop.
This is a dangerous walk. Best stay at hone with the curtains drawn and the door locked.
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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