Many In This Area Are Remembering This Day 40 Yrs Ago .

[Evans Electric]

Two Birmingham pubs blown up 40 yrs ago  today  about 8.15 on a Friday night . 

Some of the recollections on local radio,  of those who survived,   are dreadful to hear .

And now there seems to be a conspirarcy over who the real culprits are  ,  the third bomb ( unexploded)  that has dissapeared etc .

So many people were affected by this ,  those who died , those who suffered dreadful injuries , their relatives , parents of youngsters who had left for a night out ,  their friends , the emergency services ,  the taxi drivers ferrying body parts  to the morgue , all the off duty staff at Birmingham General  who immediatly turned up for duty .

I know its not pleasant but I thought the one photo brings it home ...someone's loved one went out for a quiet drink . 

 

[ProDave]

Gosh is it really 40 years ago?  I was still at school, but I remember it.

 

[Steve3948]

Birmingham 6 

 

[steptoe]

Birmingham 6 

irish state sponsored terrorists aided by the yankee dollar,

its only in the last 15 or so years that the usa made irish catholic terrorist organisations illegal.

 

[Evans Electric]

As apprentices working on  city centre sites,  Friday nights ( Pay day)  would find us in the Mullberry Bush at the bottom of the Rotunda . A few years before this occurance  but makes you think .

The other pub , The Tavern in the Town was a downstairs bar ,  must have been horrendous !! 

All the taxi cabs were called off the ranks  to ferry injured to hospital