It was once an industrial wasteland, now it’s Eastlands.
Where there were coalpits, locomotive works, chemical plants and cotton workshops are now sports stadia – Manchester City, the Velodrome (where we hope to witness the cycling training) – a cleaned-up canal, a new Metrolink line and millions of pounds of investment.
We will unravel how the beating heart of industrial Manchester became the soul of the new 21st century city.
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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