On the 80th anniversary of the first use of atom bombs, a guided walk around the Manchester City Centre Peace Trail
Wednesday 6 August at 1.30pm (Hiroshima Day) or Saturday 9 August at 10.30am (Nagasaki Day)
The walk, which is open to all and wheelchair accessible, covers sites connected with the growth of Manchester as the world’s first industrial city and its importance as a centre for peace and radical political activity, and includes
- John Dalton, the “nuclear timeline”, the Peace Garden, MAG (Mines Advisory Group) and the Nobel Peace Prize
- The Free Trade Hall, suffragists and suffragettes to the Sex Pistols
- Peterloo and the popular reform movement
- Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln and the campaigns against the slave trade and chattel slavery
- The Hidden Gem and religious tolerance, free thinking and science
Both 1½ hour circular walks start in front of Central Library, St Peter’s Square, M2 5PD. Presented by Greater Manchester Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND).
Booking on Eventbrite: £10.00
All participants are invited to attend either the Manchester’s civic commemoration of Hiroshima Day at Manchester Museum at 11.30 – 12.30 on August 6th and attend Manchester’s civic commemoration of Nagasaki Day in the afternoon of August 9th at 2.00 – 3.00 at Heaton Park in the Western Pleasure Grounds (by the Stables Café), St Margaret’s Road, M25 2GT. Both commemorations directly precede the two respective peace walks.
