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SUMMARY:Ed Glinert talk to Halifax Arts Society\, Liverpool Architecture
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SUMMARY:The 1996 Manchester Bomb. Expert tour
DESCRIPTION:This tour: Sunday 15 June 2025\, 11.15am.\nMeet: Outside Selfridge’s\, Exchange Square.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite. \nOne myth we will shatter is that the pillar box that stands on the site now is the same pillar box! \nAnother myth is that the bomb was definitely the work of the IRA. \nThe morning of Saturday the 15th of June 1996. A man with an Irish accent phones the Manchester media to say that a bomb is set to go off in the city centre. Because he gives the correct code word\, the authorities realise this is serious. The bomb is in a van on Corporation Street by a pillar box outside Marks & Spencer. \nThe police begin the onerous task of clearing thousands of people from the area. The bomb disposable unit arrives and sets up base on Back Pool Fold\, off Cross Street\, a hundred yards away. Will they be able to defuse the device in time? \nAt nearly a quarter past eleven the army people send their remotely-controlled robotic device – the pigstick disrupter – along Cross Street and Corporation Street to defuse the bomb. It arrives at 11.17am\, one second too late. \n*** \nThe bomb exploded\, sending 3\,300 pounds of Semtex and ammonium nitrate fertiliser into the sky. It was the biggest ever bomb detonated on the British mainland in “peacetime” and destroyed much of the city centre. \nBut why Manchester? Join us on a tour tainted with trauma and tension\, which reaches into the very depths of the city’s rarely told history.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/the-1996-manchester-bomb-expert-tour/
LOCATION:Selfridge’s\, Exchange Square\, Manchester\, M3 1BD\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:L. S\, Lowry: Expert Tour with Pictures
DESCRIPTION:Next Walking tour: Saturday 21 June 2025\nMeet: Outside the Mercure Hotel\, Portland Street.\nBooking: Please press here to book with Eventbrite.  \nSpurned\, snubbed and sniggered at\, Laurence Stephen Lowry became Britain’s most famous and best-loved 20th century painter\, whose works now sell for millions. \nHe called himself a “simple man”\, but he was the strangest of fellows. He never left the British Isles\, enjoyed no sexual relations\, and made his will over to a much younger woman\, whom he befriended simply because she shared his surname. \nLowry’s day job was not as an artist but a rent collector in the slum areas of the city\, and as we explore the man behind the paintings we take you through the haunts he visited and depicted.
URL:https://www.newmanchesterwalks.com/event/l-s-lowry-expert-tour-with-pictures/
LOCATION:Mercure Hotel (outside)\, Portland Street\, Manchester\, M1 4PH\, United Kingdom
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