7.30pm tonight (Friday)

Head under the streets on this Zoom Underground Manchester tour to explore subterranean canals, the atomic bunker, WW2 air-raid shelters...
Head under the streets of Manchester on a Zoom Virtual Tour: Underground Manchester.
No need for sturdy walking boots, torch, or three-day survival kit!
We will explore in detail, with all the relevant shots, the places you’d love to get down to but can’t anymore, thanks to meticulous and eye-opening research by Ed Glinert, Manchester’s hardest-working historian.
We will take you to:
• The underground Manchester & Salford Junction Canal, from its open-air source through to its submerged section where the water resolutely refuses to go away. What a story when a million gallons of water were pumped out to convert it to the city's biggest WW2 air-raid shelter! It's still there, rotting away, complete with war-time relics.
• The atomic bunker that stretches for four miles under George Street, Piccadilly Gardens and Market Street, built at a time of government paranoia (what’s new?!).
• The massive space under Manchester Cathedral, also a WW2 shelter, complete with toilets, stairs, space for bunk beds.
• Manchester’s half-hearted attempts to create a proper underground tube system. Where did it all go wrong?
• Not forgetting the underground streams and rivers.
The format
Ed Glinert, who has spent far too much time under Manchester, will unravel the mysteries of the deep. After half an hour or so, there will be time for a break for a stiff drink. We will then recommence for another half an hour of sturdy virtual touring. Then you can go home. Hold on; you’re already at home.