Limeworks, ironworks, boilerworks, factories and mills – this was industrial Manchester at its noisiest and dirtiest. But it was once salubrious suburbia, home of some of the richest men in Victorian Manchester, setting for the graveyard of the great and good, and the seat of the Conservative prime minister from the days when it wasn’t illegal to vote Tory in Manchester! 
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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