Manchester – A True ‘City of Peace’

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Manchester – a true ‘City of Peace’

Join well known CND and peace activist Steve Roman on Sunday 3rd August, at 2.00 pm, for an illuminating and inspiring guided walk along the “Manchester City Centre Peace Trail”, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 6th and 9th August.

Journeying through the Peace Trail will bring alive Manchester’s history of research which was to lead to the development of the atom bomb. Also covered will be its radical history, its growth as the world’s first industrial city and its importance as a centre for peace, tolerance and promotion of social justice in the city and around the globe. Buildings and locations will gain new meanings as we learn about their peace history and the relevance for civil rights movements.

The walk will include the following themes / sites with perhaps some new perspectives:

• John Dalton, Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr and the “Nuclear Timeline”, the Peace Garden, MAG (Mines Advisory Group) and the Nobel Peace Prize
• Free thinking and Science
• Peterloo, the popular reform movement and Engels
• The Free Trade Hall, Suffragists and Suffragettes
• The campaign for gay rights

We will meet outside the Central Library, Mosley St and finish at the statue of Alan Turing in Sackville St. The walk will take approximately two hours.

This walk continues from the Lit & Phil Peace walk held on 29^th March 2025.

The route is fully wheelchair accessible.

The guide is donating his fee to charity.