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

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 . 

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

Birmingham 6 

Steve3948 said:

Birmingham 6 

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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.

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